For I will show him ... - This seems to be added to encourage Ananias. He had feared Saul. The Lord now informs him that Saul, hitherto his enemy, would ever after be his friend. He would not merely profess repentance, but would manifest the sincerity of it by encountering trials and reproaches for his sake. The prediction here was fully accomplished, Acts 20:23; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Timothy 1:11.
Verse Acts 9:16. _HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER_] Instead of proceeding as a persecutor, and inflicting sufferings on _others_, I will show him how many things he _himself_ must suffer for preachin...
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...
SHEW. forewarn. Greek. _hupodeiknumi._ Occurs elsewhere Acts 20:35.Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7; Luke 6:47;...
_for I will shew him how great_[many] _things he must suffer_ Cp. Paul's own words (Acts 20:23), "The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me." The truth of thi...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
ὙΠῈΡ ΤΟΥ͂ ὈΝΌΜΑΤΌΣ ΜΟΥ ΠΑΘΕΙ͂Ν, _to suffer for My name_. It was no light burden which the new convert was to bear. Cf. his own words (Acts 20:23), ‘the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that...
_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...
ΎΠΟΔΕΊΞΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΟΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G5263) показывать, объяснять, ΠΑΘΕΪΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) страдать. _Inf._ с ΔΕΪ указывает на необходимость....
I WILL SHEW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER— If this intimates, as some very learned commentators seem to think, that Saul should presently have a revelation, and perhaps a visionary representatio...
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...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. FOR I WILL SHOW HIM, [ hupodeixoo (G5263)]. The word signifies to 'indicate' or 'hint,' rather than to manifest plainly (as i...
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...
I WILL SHEW HIM] see Acts 20:23; Acts 21:11; 2 Corinthians 11:23....
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...
FOR I WILL SHEW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER... — The words are spoken as by One who knows “what is in man” (John 2:25), their secret motives, and springs of action. With characters of a lower...
ἐγὼ γὰρ : he is a chosen vessel unto me, and therefore ὑποδ. Wendt disagrees with Meyer, who finds the showing in the experiences of the sufferings (so Hackett and Felten), and refers the word with De...
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...
For I will (h) shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. (h) I will plainly show him....
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...
_THE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE_ ‘For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake.’ Acts 9:16 God is revealing to Ananias His purposes concerning Saul, whom He had just called to his...
16._And because. _Paul could not do this, and have Satan quiet, and the world to yield to him willingly; therefore Luke addeth, that he shall be also taught to bear the cross. For the meaning of the w...
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...
FOR I WILL SHOW HIM,.... In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him: HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S SAKE; such as weariness, pain, and wat...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. Ver. 16. _How great things he must suffer_] Opposition is (as Calvin wrote to the French king) _Evangelii genius, _ the evil an...
_But the Lord said, Go thy way_ Do not tell me how bad he has been; I know it well; but go with all speed, and execute that message of mercy with which I have charged thee; _for_ How great and aggrava...
HE MUST SUFFER; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23-28....
FOR I WILL SHOW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. The obedience of Ananias was put to a severe test by the Lord's commission, when he heard the name Saul of Tarsus. He had heard...
The objection of Ananias answered:...
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,...
FOR I WILL SHOW HIM HOW MANY THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME ' S SAKE. " 1. He caused suffering among the saints. 2. He will endure much suffering in the name of Jesus. 3. I do not believe this s...
"for. will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake" "As if Christ were assuring Ananias that Saul would not inflict suffering upon others, but. will show him how much he must suffer...
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...
He shall suffer as great things as he ever did cause or inflict; the hatred of his own countrymen the Jews, and the fury of the Gentiles: see the catalogue of them, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23. And were there...
Acts 9:16 For G1063 I G1473 show G5263 (G5692) him G846 things G3745 he G846 must G1163 (G5
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel, for I will show him how many things he must suffer...
Acts 9:16. FOR I WILL SHOW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. As in chap. Acts 20:23, when, in his farewell address at Ephesus, he tells the elders of the Church how the Holy Ghos...
I WILL SHEW (υποδειξω). Beforehand as a warning as in Luke 3:7 and from time to time.HE MUST SUFFER (δε αυτον παθειν). Constative aorist active infinitive (παθειν, from πασχω) covering the whole c...
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...
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. _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...
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...
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...
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...
GO, BECAUSE I HAVE CHOSEN HIM. The case of Saul is unique! He alone of the apostles, saw the Lord in this way and received this call (1 Corinthians 15:8; Acts 26:16-18). Note that Saul was _called_ to...
_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...
_For I will show him how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake._ THE SERVICE OF SUFFERING I. Suffering is one of the ways in which we may serve God. 1. The remarkable feature here is, that...
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 4:9; 1 Peter 4:14; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Timothy 1:12;...
How great things [ο σ α]. Rev., more correctly, how many....
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...
For I — Do thou as thou art commanded. I will take care of the rest; will show him — In fact, through the whole course of his ministry. How great things he must suffer — So far will he be now from per...