Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
Acts 9:14
ὧδε hic et huc (Blass), Acts 9:21 τοὺς ἐπικ. τὸ ὄνομά σου note the repeated pronoun and compare 1 Corinthians 1:2 s where ἐπικ. is closely joined with ἄγιοι. and on the whole phrase see above Acts 2:21
ὧδε hic et huc (Blass), Acts 9:21 τοὺς ἐπικ. τὸ ὄνομά σου note the repeated pronoun and compare 1 Corinthians 1:2 s where ἐπικ. is closely joined with ἄγιοι. and on the whole phrase see above Acts 2:21
Verse Acts 9:14. _AND HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY_, c.] Ananias had undoubtedly heard of Saul's coming, and the commission he had received from the chief priests and he was about to urge this as a reason w...
I HAVE HEARD BY MANY ... - This was in the vision, Acts 9:10. The passage of such a train of thoughts through the mind was perfectly natural at the command to go and search out Saul. There would insta...
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...
AUTHORITY. Greek. _exousia._ App-172. CALL, &C. See note on Acts 2:21....
_all that call on thy name_ To call on Christ is the same as to be a believer in Him. The expression is used as an apposition to "saints" in 1 Corinthians 1:2, and thence we see what in the Pauline la...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
ΤΟῪΣ ἘΠΙΚΑΛΟΥΜΈΝΟΥΣ ΤῸ ὌΝΟΜΆ ΣΟΥ, _those that call on thy name_. ‘To call on Christ’s name’ is equivalent to being a believer in Him. The expression is found in 1 Corinthians 1:2 in apposition to ἅγιο...
_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...
ΔΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf., см._ Acts 9:2. Эпэкз. _inf._ объясняет ΈΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ. ΈΠΙΚΑΛΟΥΜΈΝΟΥΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΠΙΚΑΛΈΟΜΑΙ (G1941) призывать....
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 13...
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. AND HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BIND ALL THAT CALL ON THY NAME. Thus it would seem that not...
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...
ALL THAT CALL ON THY NAME. — Here again we have to trace the growth of a new terminology. The description of the disciples of the Lord Jesus as those who called upon or invoked His name, had its origi...
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...
... _“to bind all those who call on the name of the Lord.”_ This is the universal designation of God's people, _i. e_., calling on the name of the Lord. Prayer moves the arm that moves the world, and...
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...
14._He hath power to bind. _We gather by these words, that the fame of the persecution which Saul went about (590) was spread far and wide; for which cause his conversion was (591) more famous. Nevert...
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 HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS,.... His fury and madness against the saints did not stop at Jerusalem, but he had received a commission from the sanhedrim to go to Damascus, where h...
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. Ver. 14. _And here he hath authority_] Therefore he was more than 20 years old (as Ambrose and Theodoret make him...
_Then Ananias_ Astonished to hear such a name mentioned in such a connection; _answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man_ What a malicious enemy he is to thy gospel: all those who were scattere...
CALL ON THY NAME; the name of the Lord Jesus. Christians in the days of the apostles were distinguished by this. 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 TIMOTHY 2:22....
The objection of Ananias answered:...
AND HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BIND ALL THAT CALL ON THY NAME....
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 HERE HE HAS AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BIND ALL WHO CALL ON YOUR NAME. " 1. His mission in Damascus was already known. Ananias knew that Saul was coming and what his purpose was. 2. He...
"and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name" Evidently news had quickly spread to Damascus that Saul was on his way to persecute Christians in that city. Pos...
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...
Here Ananias shows the strengh of his excuse; for flesh and blood cried in him, as in Moses, EXODUS 4:13, _Send by him whom thou wilt send._...
Acts 9:14 And G2532 here G5602 has G2192 (G5719) authority G1849 from G3844 priests G749 bind G1210 ...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your n...
Acts 9:14. HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY. No doubt Ananias and the saints at Damascus had received intimation from the Jerusalem brethren of Saul's mission to their city....
HATH AUTHORITY (εχε εξουσιαν). Probably Ananias had received letters from the Christians left in Jerusalem warning him of the coming of Saul. The protest of Ananias to Jesus against any dealing wit...
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...
ANANIAS ANSWERED. He voices his fears to the Lord. Put yourself in his place....
_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...
_Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man._ AN ENCOURAGING LESSON FROM PAUL’S CONVERSION The conversion of Saul was one of the most remarkable facts in Christian history. It was...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Timothy 2:22; Acts 22:16; Acts 7:59; Acts 9:2;...
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...
All that call on thy name — That is, all Christians....