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Verse Acts 9:10. _A CERTAIN DISCIPLE - NAMED ANANIAS_] A general
opinion has prevailed in the Greek Church that this Ananias was one of
the seventy-two disciples, and that he was martyred; and they
c...
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A CERTAIN DISCIPLE - A Christian. Many have supposed that he was one
of the 70 disciples. But nothing more is certainly known of him than
is related here. He had very probably been some time a Christi...
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CHAPTER 9
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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...
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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...
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SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
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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...
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CERTAIN. Greek. _tis_. App-123.
NAMED. by name.
VISION. See note on Acts 7:31.
BEHOLD. Greek. _idou._ App-133. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6....
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Saul's sight restored. He preaches in Damascus
10. _And_[Now] _there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named
Ananias_ Of this disciple we have no further mention in Holy Writ
except in chap. Acts 22...
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SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
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ἮΝ ΔΈ ΤΙΣ ΜΑΘΗΤῊΣ … ἈΝΑΝΊΑΣ. _Now there was
a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias_. Of this disciple we
have no further mention in Holy Writ except in chap. Acts 22:12, where
St Paul describes...
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_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...
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ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 9:5. ΌΡΑΜΑ (G3705)
видение. Не обязательно сновидение, но
состояние, в котором сознание
человека открыто для небесных
посланий (Haenchen)....
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ANANIAS;— As we read of Ananias only in this history, it is
difficult to determine who he was. Some suppose him to have been a
native of Jerusalem, and to have first planted the gospel at Damascus.
So...
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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...
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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
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10-12. While this scene of anguish was transpiring in the presence of
the astonished Jews who surrounded Saul, the Lord was not unmindful of
the promise he had made him. As he had sent him to Damascus...
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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.
AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS, NAMED...
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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...
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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...
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ANANIAS] probably the head of the Christian body at Damascus. Late
tradition makes him one of the Seven, consecrated bishop of Damascus
by Peter and Andrew, and a martyr....
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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...
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A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS, NAMED ANANIAS. — In Acts 22:12 St.
Paul speaks of him as a “devout man” (the same word as in Acts
2:5; Acts 8:2) “according to the law,” well reported of by all the
Jew...
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CHAPTER 3
THE NEW CONVERT AND HIS HUMAN TEACHER.
Acts 9:10
SAUL of Tarsus was converted outside the city, but the work was only
begun there. Christ would put honour upon the work of human ministry,...
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Ἀνανίας : _nomen et omen_, “Jehovah is gracious” (_cf._
Acts 22:12). No doubt a Jewish Christian (he is supposed by some, as
by St. Augustine, to have been the presbyter to whose care the Church
at Da...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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10.We have said before that this man was rather chosen than any of the
apostles, that Paul, having laid away the swelling of his arrogancy,
might learn to hear the least, and that he [might] come down...
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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...
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AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS,.... Who perhaps came
hither upon the persecution at Jerusalem, or rather might have lived
here some time; Acts 9:13 that he was more than a private or ord...
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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.
Ver. 10. _And there was a certain_] See here the ne...
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_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...
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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....
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The Lord commissions Ananias:...
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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,...
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NOW THERE WAS A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS NAMED ANANIAS; AND TO HIM
THE LORD SAID IN A VISION, " ANANIAS. " AND HE SAID, " HERE I AM,
LORD. "
1. Ananias - Some believe that Ananias was one of the...
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"Now there was. certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the
Lord said unto him in. vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold,. am here,
Lord" From the text it appears that Ananias had come to Dama...
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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...
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ANANIAS; he was of good repute for zeal and holiness. as appears, ACTS
22:12, but whether he was one of the seventy disciples which our
Saviour sent out, LUKE 10:1, as some will have, is not certain....
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10-12. While this scene of anguish was transpiring in the presence of
the astonished Jews who surrounded Saul, the Lord was not unmindful of
the promise he had made him. As he had sent him to Damascus...
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‘Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias, and
the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias”. And he said,
“Behold, I am here, Lord.”
Meanwhile a believer in Damascus who was named A...
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SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
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_The Visit of Ananias to the Blinded Saul,_ 10-19.
Acts 9:10. AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN DISCIPLE AT DAMASCUS, NAMED
ANANIAS. It is certain, from the particular description of Saul in
Acts 9:11, ‘One cal...
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ANANIAS
(Hανανιας). Name common enough (cf. Acts 5:1 for another
Ananias) and means "Jehovah is gracious." _Nomen et omen_ (Knowling).
This Ananias had the respect of both Jews and Christians in Da...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THERE WAS A DISCIPLE. Ananias is only mentioned in his connection with
Saul....
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_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...
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_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...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:10 The LORD is Jesus and not the Father (see v.
Acts 9:17). Ananias’s response, HERE I AM, is like that of OT people
such as Abraha
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:8; 2 Samuel 15:26; Acts 10:17; Acts 10:3;...
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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...
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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...
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Observe here, 1. Though Christ converted Saul himself, yet Ananias his
minister must instruct him. By Christ is grace infused, but by his
ministers increased; such an honour doth Christ put upon the m...