Acts 9:22

Acts 9:22. But Saul increased the more in strength. Dean Alford regards these as the only words under which can lie concealed the journey to Arabia, His note on this verse is a striking one: ‘Paul mentions this journey with no obscure hint that to it was to be assigned the reception by him of the Gospel which he preached, and such a reception would certainly give rise to the great accession of power here recorded.... The omission of any mention of this journey here can only arise from one or two causes: (1) Whether Paul himself were the source of the narration or some other narrator, the intentional passing over it as belonging more to his personal history than to that of his ministry. (2) On the supposition of Paul not having been the source of the narrative, the narrator having not been aware of it. In either case this expression (increased the more in strength) seems one very likely to have been used (1) if the omission was intentional, to record a remarkable accession of power to Saul's ministry without particularising whence or how it came; (2) if it was unintentional, as a simple record of that which was observed in him, but of which the source was to the narrator unknown.'

Proving that this is the very Christ Literally, bringing together, showing the connection between the words of the Old Testament prophets and the life and work of Jesus of Nazareth.