Acts 9:2

Acts 9:2. And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues. The Jews at Damascus were very numerous. The religion of Jesus had been preached most probably by individual believers, driven away from Jerusalem at the time of the persecution, but no doubt Damascus Jews had been among the converted on the first Pentecost.

Of this way. This expression is a favourite one with the author of the ‘Acts.' It signifies the religion of Jesus (see Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4; Acts 24:22). It became soon a well-known and loved form of words in the early Church. It was to these first followers of the Crucified the way the way that leads to heaven, as Chrysostom beautifully terms it; the way, as Bengel tells us, we must walk, not loiter over.