"And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man"The men" Possibly Jewish or Roman soldiers. "Stood speechless" "Denotes those who are so astonished or stupefied as to be unable to speak" (Reese p. 354). These men had also been knocked to the ground by the intense light (Acts 26:14). "But beholding no man" McGarvey notes, "This is not the statement of. writer who is conscious of inventing. story, and taking care to bolster it up with fictitious evidence: otherwise he would have admitted that the only persons who could have been joint witnesses with Saul of the presence of Jesus did not see Him. In the meantime these companions, though not able to say who spoke to Saul, were competent witnesses to the facts that the light appeared, that. voice was heard" (p. 172).

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