Of this way [τ η ς ο δ ο υ]. Rev., more correctly, "the way." A common expression in the Acts for the Christian religion : "the characteristic direction of life as determined by faith on Jesus Christ" (Meyer). See ch. Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4; Acts 24:22. For the fuller expression of the idea, see ch. Acts 16:17; Acts 18:25.
Women. Paul three times alludes to his persecution of women as an aggravation of his cruelty (ch. Acts 8:3; Acts 9:2; Acts 22:4).
ACTS 9:2 th/j o`dou/ o;ntaj There are six variant readings: th/j o`dou/ o;ntaj (B C E H L P many minuscules), o;ntaj th/j o`dou/ (î74 a A 81 88 242 323 467 915 1739 2298), th/j o`dou/ tau,thj o...
Verse Acts 9:2. _LETTERS TO DAMASCUS TO THE SYNAGOGUES_] Damascus, anciently called דמסק _Damask_, and דרמסק _Darmask_, was once the metropolis of all Syria. It was situated at fifty miles' distance...
AND DESIRED OF HIM - This shows the intensity of his wish to persecute the Christians, that he was willing to ask for such an employment. LETTERS - Epistles, implying a commission to bring them to Je...
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)...
But Saul, still breathing out threat and murder to the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters of credit to Damascus, to the synagogues there, so that if he found any...
DESIRED. Greek. _aiteo._ App-134. DAMASCUS. Probably the oldest city in the world. First mentioned in Genesis 14:15. Founded before Baal-bee and Palmyra, has outlived them both. In David's time. garri...
_and desired of him letters_ These are the papers which constituted his "authority and commission" (Acts 26:12). From that passage we learn that the issuing of these papers was the act of the whole bo...
Acts 9:1-9. SAUL’S MISSION TO DAMASCUS AND HIS CONVERSION...
ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΆΣ, _letters_. These are the papers which constituted his ‘authority and commission’ (Acts 26:12). From that passage we learn that the issuing of these papers was the act of the whole body, for...
_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...
ΉΤΉΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΑΊΤΈΩ (G154) молить, просить для себя, ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΉ (G1992) письмо. Это были рекомендательные письма для Савла к иудейской синагоге (SB, 2:689; ВВС). Савл отправлялся как офиц...
AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS— These _letters_ contained a mandate from the high-priest, empowering him to act, as appears from chap. Acts 26:12 where they are explained by the words _authority_ and _com...
AT JERUSALEM. Acts 9:1-2. Acts 9:1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, Acts 9:2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto...
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...
See notes on verse 1...
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS - o...
26 It is notable that the messenger, or angel, who spoke to Philip is also called "the spirit" (29) and "the spirit of the Lord" (39). This suggests that these expressions may refer to created beings...
9:2 way, (e-21) * The Christian way. see Mark 10:32 ,Mark 10:52 ; Acts 19:9 ,Acts 19:23 ;...
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...
SYNAGOGUES] clearly the Christians had not yet separated from the Jewish synagogues. THIS WAY] 'Way,' thus used absolutely for Christianity, is peculiar to Acts: see Acts 16:17; Acts 18:25; Acts 19:9;...
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...
AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS TO DAMASCUS. — We learn from 2 Corinthians 11:32, that Damascus was at this time under the government of Aretas, the king of Arabia Petræa. How it came to be so, having been...
Acts 9:1 CHAPTER 2 THE CONVERSION OF THE PERSECUTOR. Acts 8:3; Acts 9:1 WE have in the last chapter traced the course of St. Paul's life as we know it from his own reminiscences, from hints in Hol...
ᾐτήσατο, see on Acts 3:2, with παρά, in Acts 3:3, we have the imperfect, but “inest in aoristo quod etiam accepit,” Blass; on the use of the verb in N.T., see also Blass, _Gram._, p. 182, and Grimm-Th...
WINNING A PERSECUTOR Acts 9:1-9 A year had passed since Acts 8:3. “The Way” had become the accepted phrase for the infant Church and its presentation of the truth, Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4. It may refer...
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...
Seeing the Light on the Damascus' Road Saul not only persecuted the church in Jerusalem, but even went to foreign cities to carry out his vicious persecution. Bruce presents some evidence that the Jew...
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this (b) way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. (b) Any trade of life which a...
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...
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, (2) And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any...
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...
2.And Luke describeth therewithal that he was furnished with weapons and power to do hurt, when as he saith that he had _obtained _letters of the highest priest, that he might bring all those bound to...
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...
AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS TO DAMASCUS,.... Damascus was the head or metropolis of Syria, Isaiah 7:8 And so Pliny z calls it Damascus of Syria: it was a very ancient city; it was in the times of Abrah...
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. Ver. 2. _Letters to Damascus_] Th...
_And Saul, yet_ (ετι _, adhuc, hitherto_, or _still_) _breathing out threatenings and slaughter_ This very emphatical expression refers to what is related of Saul, Acts 8:3; (where see the note;) and...
DAMASCUS; a city of Syria, about a hundred and twenty miles north-east of Jerusalem. TO THE SYNAGOGUES; to the elders or rulers of the synagogues in Damascus, giving him full power to act in the matt...
AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS TO DAMASCUS, TO THE SYNAGOGUES, THAT IF HE FOUND ANY OF THIS WAY, WHETHER THEY WERE MEN OR WOMEN, HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND UNTO JERUSALEM. In marked contrast to the earnest...
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF PAUL. Paul's continued enmity against the Church:...
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,...
AND ASKED LETTERS FROM HIM TO THE SYNAGOGUES OF DAMASCUS, SO THAT IF HE FOUND ANY WHO WERE OF THE WAY, WHETHER MEN OR WOMEN, HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND TO JERUSALEM. 1. The high priest is granting him...
"and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem"Damascus" In 64 B.C., this city had b...
1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby; he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not d...
TO THE SYNAGOGUES; this council, though it sat at Jerusalem, had a power (whether commanding or recommending) over all the synagogues within or without Judea. OF THIS WAY; this was eminently so called...
Tertullian On Prayer , to be sure, at that time (for elsewhere our Discipline is called "the Way"[74]...
Acts 9:2 asked G154 (G5668) letters G1992 from G3844 him G846 to G1519 G4314 synagogues G4864 Damascus...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and asked of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any that were...
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...
ASKED (ηιτησατο). First aorist middle indicative, the indirect middle, asked for himself (as a favour to himself). Felten notes that "Saul as a Pharisee makes request of a Sadducee" (the high pries...
OF THIS WAY that were of The Way, that is, Christ. (John 14:6)....
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 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. _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...
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...
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...
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...
AND ASKED FOR LETTERS. If Saul's conversion was in 33 A.D. [by the corrected calendar], the High Priest must have been Joseph Calaphas, a Sadducee, who held office until 36 A.D. The High Priest was a...
_And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples._ SAUL, A PERSECUTOR Saul was an educated young man, and that he should engage in the work of persecution strikes us as a...
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 9:1. AND should be _but_ directing attention once more to Saul. BREATHING OUT.—_Breathing in_ better renders the verb ἐμπνέων, threatening and slaughter describing the atmosphe...
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...
Acts 13:14; Acts 13:15; Acts 19:23; Acts 19:9; Acts 22:5;...
THE CONVERSION OF SAUL OF TARSUS Acts 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have read, how, years ago, an outstanding infidel felt that if the Resurrection of Christ, and the Conversion of Saul could be demonst...
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...
Bound — By the connivance, if not authority, of the governor, under Aretas the king. See Acts 9:14, Acts 9:24....