ἐν ὁράματι, see critical notes. ἄνδρα Ἀ. ὀνόμ.: the words would certainly indicate, as Wendt points out (seventh edition, not eighth), that Saul was previously unacquainted with Ananias. Jesus communicates the contents of the vision, and speaks as it were from the standpoint of Saul (see Felten's note, p. 190). ἐπιθέντα κ. τ. λ., see above on Acts 8:17.
ACTS 9:12 Because the verse is absent from the Old Latin h, Blass omitted it from his Roman edition of Acts and Hilgenfeld bracketed it. There is, however, as Knowling remarks, 181 no apparent reason...
Verse Acts 9:12. _HATH SEEN IN A VISION_] While God prepares Ananias, by a vision, to go and minister to Saul, he at the same time prepares Saul, by another vision, to profit by this ministry....
AND HE HATH SEEN IN A VISION ... - When this was shown to Saul, or how, is not recorded. The vision was shown to Saul to assure him when Ananias came that he was no impostor. He was thus prepared to r...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
PAUL'S CONVERSION. This belongs geographically to the field of the Hellenist mission, which was announced in Acts 8:4, and occupied that whole chapter. We heard of that mission at Samaria and Cæ sarea...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
There was a disciple in Damascus called Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He said, "Here am I Lord." The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called 'Straight'; inqui...
HATH SEEN. saw. Greek. _eidon._ App-133. RECEIVE HIS SIGHT. Greek. _anablepo._ App-133....
_and hath seen in a vision_ The oldest MSS. omit "in a vision." It could only have been in this wise that Saul had been informed, and the words are merely a gloss....
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
ἐν ὁράματι omitted with אA. The _Vulg_. also does not represent it. 12. ἈΝΑΒΛΈΨΗ, _he may receive his sight_. Here we have ὅπως with the conjunctive after a past tense. But as the event alluded to is...
_THE CONVERSION OF SAUL ACTS 9:1-18:_ Saul's early training helped him to be a very sincere man. However, as important as sincerity is we must remember that sincerity may be just as real in the heart...
ΕΊΔΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΕΊΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ Acts 9:6. ΈΠΙΘΈΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007) возлагать, ΆΝΑΒΛΈΨΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΝ...
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24 For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
IN DAMASCUS. Acts 9:8 b - Acts 9:22. Acts 9:8 b and they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus. Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and di
See notes on verse 10...
And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. AND HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. [Lachmann and Tischendorf exclu...
10 God graciously gives a double witness to His dealing with Saul. Ananias is quite his opposite, being a devout disciple. Saul would have found it almost impossible to join the disciples as he did wi...
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
AND HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. — The coincidence of the two visions has seemed to some critics, as afterwards in the history of Cornelius, to betray something like the skill of the art...
OPENED EYES Acts 9:10-22 How graciously God makes use of prepared souls as partners in the work of salvation! It would have been easy for the risen Lord to have Himself completed what He had begun; o...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
Saul Baptized by Ananias Luke told Theophilus that "a certain disciple," not an apostle or preacher, saw a vision from the Lord. It must have been a shock for Ananias to hear the Lord tell him to go t...
_And he saw a man, &c. This verse, which is by way of a parenthesis, contains the words of the historian, St. Luke, telling us what St. Paul saw in a vision, and what the Spirit at the same time revea...
SAUL'S CONVERSION 1-15. As the Romans looked upon the Nazarenes as an insignificant faction of Judaism, in some way to them utterly mysterious, out of harmony with their own church, they acquiesced in...
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. (11) And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
12._He saw a man, named Ananias. _It is uncertain whether Luke do yet repeat the words of Christ, or he add this of his own. Those which take it in the person of Luke are moved with some show of absur...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
AND HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS,.... Some read this verse in a parenthesis, and take them to be the words of Luke the historian; but it is rather a continuation of the words of Christ, t...
And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting _his_ hand on him, that he might receive his sight. Ver. 12. _And hath seen in a vision_] It is not certain whether these be Chris...
_And there was a disciple named Ananias_ This Ananias, before his conversion to Christianity, had lived so conformably to the law, that he was much esteemed by all the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, Acts...
A VISION; designed to prepare Saul for his interview with Ananias....
AND HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS COMING IN, AND PUTTING HIS HAND ON HIM THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE HIS SIGHT. A certain disciple there was at Damascus, one of those whose life and liberty Saul...
The Lord commissions Ananias:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
AND IN A VISION HE HAS SEEN A MAN NAMED ANANIAS COMING IN AND PUTTING _HIS_ HAND ON HIM, SO THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE HIS SIGHT. " 1. God has already prepared Saul - who is coming and what they will do....
"and he hath seen. man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight" God has given some comfort to Saul--showing him that an end to his blindness is in sight....
10-22 A good work was begun in Saul, when he was brought to Christ's feet with those words, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And never did Christ leave any who were brought to that. Behold, the pr...
If this verse be the words of St. Luke, continuing the history, then they must be included in a parenthesis, the sense being entire without them; but they seem to be the words of the Lord continued to...
Acts 9:12 And G2532 in G1722 vision G3705 seen G1492 (G5627) man G435 named G3686 Ananias G367 in...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘And the Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for behold, he is praying. And he has seen a ma...
Acts 9:12. HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. The Lord, in relating to Ananias the purport of a vision which Saul had seen, especially mentioned, not _that Saul had seen thee,_ but _a man name...
COMING IN AND LAYING (εισελθοντα κα επιθεντα). Second aorist (ingressive) active participles picturing the punctiliar act as a sort of indirect discourse after verbs of sensation (Robertson, _Gramm...
Acts 9:1 Early History and Conversion of Paul. Viewed as a public event in the history of the Christian Church, the conversion of Paul furnishes new and independent testimony to the Divine origin of...
Acts 9:1 The Conversion of St. Paul. That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are His captured enemies. E...
L, 2. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_ Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings a...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Just as Philip was sent to the Ethiopian eunuch, Ananias is sent to Saul. STRAIGHT STREET. This street ran across the city, from the eastern gate to the western gate, and was abo...
_And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave._ THE HEAVENLY LIGHT As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We have...
_And there was a certain disciple at Damascus called Ananias._ ANANIAS OF DAMASCUS 1. Most people have watched a little steam tug busily towing some great ship down stream or out into the sea. The tu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:10. That ANANIAS (see on Acts 9:1) was one of the Seventy is an unsupported conjecture; that he was a “devout” man Saul afterwards asserts (Acts 22:12); that he had previousl...
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
Acts 9:10; Acts 9:17; Acts 9:18...
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
ANANIAS, SERVANT OF GOD Acts 9:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God links Himself with man in the performance of His Word and work. "We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us." What co...
A man called Ananias — His name also was revealed to Saul....