Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Acts 9:20
straightway. Greek. eutheos, as in Acts 9:18.
preached. Greek. kerusso. App-121.
Christ. The texts read "Jesus".
He. This One.
the Son of God.. App-98.
straightway. Greek. eutheos, as in Acts 9:18.
preached. Greek. kerusso. App-121.
Christ. The texts read "Jesus".
He. This One.
the Son of God.. App-98.
ACTS 9:20 VIhsou/n The reading VIhsou/n (î45, 74 a A B C E 61 vg syrp, h copsa, bo _al_) was displaced (probably for doctrinal reasons) by the reading Cristo,n (H L P armmss...
Verse Acts 9:20. _PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES_] Instead of χριστον, _Christ_, ιησουν, _Jesus_, is the reading of ABCE, several others of high importance, together with the _Syriac, Coptic, AEthi...
AND STRAIGHTWAY - Immediately. It was an evidence of the genuineness of his conversion that he was willing at once to avow himself to be the friend of the Lord Jesus. HE PREACHED CHRIST - He proclaime...
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)...
Paul remained with the disciples in Damascus for some time. And immediately he began to preach Jesus in the synagogues, and the burden of his preaching was, "This is the Son of God." Everyone who hear...
_And straightway he preached Christ_[proclaimed Jesus] _in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God_ The best MSS. read _Jesus_in this verse, and this naturally is correct. The preaching which was to...
For Χριστόν read ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Ν with אABCE. _Vulg_. ‘Jesum.’ 20. ἘΚΉΡΥΣΣΕΝ ΤῸΝ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Ν Κ.Τ.Λ., _he proclaimed Jesus that He is the Son of God_. This is undoubtedly the correct reading. The preaching which w...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
SAUL'S EARLY MINISTRY ACTS 9:19-31 : After his conversion Saul began to build up what he had tried to destroy. Saul went to the Jewish meeting places and immediately started telling people that Jesus...
ΈΚΉΡΥΣΣΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΚΗΡΎΣΣΩ (G2784) проповедовать, провозглашать. Inch, _impf._, "он начал проповедовать". ΆΤ (G3754) что. Вводит содержание его проповедей об Иисусе....
HE PREACHED CHRIST, &C.— _He preached in the synagogues, maintaining that Jesus is the Son of God._ So the Vulgate, and several manuscripts. The Jews knew that _Christ,_ or the _Messiah,_ is the _Son...
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...
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
19-22. No sooner had Saul obeyed the gospel and obtained pardon, then he began to devote all his energies to building up what he had sought to destroy. (19) "_Then Saul was some days with the disciple...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. AND STRAIGHTWAY (THAT IS, AFTER THE "CERTAIN DAYS" SPENT IN PRIVATE WITH THE DISCIPLES, ), HE PREACHED CHRIST. The t...
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...
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...
CHRIST] RV 'Jesus.' THE SON OF GOD] Whatever may be the meaning of this term in the Synoptic Gospels, in the Pauline theology it undoubtedly means a preexistent divine being, consubstantial with the F...
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 STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES. — The “straightway” as interpreted by the inference drawn in the previous Note, must be taken to refer to the Apostle’s first public appearance in...
ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς publicly in the Jewish Assemblies: οὐκ ᾐσχύνετο (Chrys.). ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ : only here in Acts. As the preaching was in the synagogue the term would be used in its Messianic sense (_...
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...
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...
The Persecutor Becomes a Preacher Once he was baptized and had broken his fast by partaking of some food, Saul began to be with the disciples. Saul immediately began preaching in Damascus, then went t...
(2) And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. (2) Paul begins immediately to execute the office which was given and commanded to him, never consulting with fles...
PAUL'S SANCTIFICATION 20-25. (Galatians 1:15-22 and Romans 7.) Saul had long been a preacher of no ordinary ability. Hence he was a fluent orator when thus powerfully converted under the impetus of a...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. (21) But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jeru...
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...
20.Luke declareth now how fruitful Paul’s conversion was, to wit, that he came abroad by and by, (600) and did not only profess that he was a disciple of Christ, but did also set himself against (601)...
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 STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES,.... The Syriac version adds, "of the Jews"; that is, which were in Damascus, Acts 9:2 from whence it appears, that he was immediately, as soon as...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. Ver. 20. _And straightway he preached_] He conferred not with flesh and blood, Galatians 1:16, but fell presently to w...
_And straightway_ That is, immediately after his conversion; _he preached Christ in the synagogues_ Some writers have given it as their opinion, (see Dr. Wells on the place, and _Script. Geog._, vol....
THE SON OF GOD; the Messiah foretold by the prophets. No man knows, when he starts on a journey, what will take place before he returns. He may be called to pass through scenes and to discharge duties...
Saul preaches Christ:...
AND STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD....
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,...
IMMEDIATELY HE PREACHED THE CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES, THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD. 1. Immediately - No delay. There was no waiting. The change was complete. 2. Saul was now a Christian - and he was re...
"And straightway in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that He is the Son of God" Note the plural, many synagogues existed in Damascus. It is easy to overlook all that is taking place in the above ve...
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...
HE PREAHCED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES; the apostles spake unto the Jews first, either that they might convert them, or at least take away all excuse from them. THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD; which doubtles...
19-22. No sooner had Saul obeyed the gospel and obtained pardon, then he began to devote all his energies to building up what he had sought to destroy. (19) "_ Then Saul was some days with the discipl...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Paul himself also-after that the Lord spoke to him out of heaven, and showed him that, in persecuting His disciples, he persecuted his own Lord, and sent Ananias to...
Acts 9:20 G2532 Immediately G2112 preached G2784 (G5707) Christ G5547 in G1722 synagogues G4864 that G3754 He...
‘And at once in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.' Saul immediately went to the synagogues one by one and proclaimed Jesus as the Son of God. The plural for synagogues sug...
SAUL'S MINISTRY IN DAMASCUS (9:20-25). With his usual enthusiasm Saul could not wait to get to grips with those who had once been his supporters, and it was not long before he was in the synagogues pr...
_Saul at Damascus.He goes to Jerusalem.Barnabas brings him to Apostles there,_ 19-30. Acts 9:20. HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES, THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD. According to the best Greek MSS., this...
HE PROCLAIMED JESUS (εκηρυσσεν τον Ιησουν). Imperfect indicative, inchoative, began to preach. Jesus, not Christ, is the correct text here. He did this first preaching in the Jewish synagogues, a h...
THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD Compare (Acts 2:36). Peter, while maintaining the deity of Jesus -- "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ" -- gives especial prominenc...
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 9:19 Damascus Arabia Jerusalem. We see from this chapter: I. The minute care which God has over His people. He gives to Ananias the street and the house in the great city of Damascus where Paul...
Acts 9:20 I. Promptitude is a pre-requisite and essential element of success. A beginning is only a beginning, and yet much depends on how it is made. Some beginnings are like the spring on the mounta...
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...
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, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
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...
HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE SYNAGOGUES. He immediately begins working to bring people to Jesus. For a short time, the _bizarre_ turn-around in him would cause many unbelieving Jews to hear him out....
_And Ananias,…putting his hands on him said, brother Saul._ SAUL CONVERTED I. The ministry which helps to complete the great change. If the appearance of the Lord to the persecutor was miraculous, t...
_Then was Saul certain days with the disciples … And straightway he preached Christ._ THE SOCIETY OF THE GOOD I. The tendency to Christian intercourse is generated by the love of Christ. The love of...
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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:19 Saul likely received instruction in the Christian “way” from the DISCIPLES AT DAMASCUS. In Galatians 1:1, Paul notes that during this time he “went
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:20. AND STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST.—Not after his return from Arabia (Plumptre), but after his conversion and during or at the end of the certain days. Paul’s preaching...
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...
1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:15; Acts 8:37; Acts 9:27; Acts 9:28;...
Christ. The correct reading is Jesus, the individual or personal name of the Lord. Christ was not yet current as his personal name. Paul's object was to establish the identity of Jesus the Nazarene wi...
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...
SAUL SAVED TO SERVE Acts 9:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Following his baptism Saul received meat for his famished body, and was strengthened. Then Saul entered into a new comradeship with believers; a comr...
Here we have an account of St. Paul's entrance upon his ministerial office in preaching the gospel; STRAIGHTAWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES. Where note, 1. The time of his preaching, STRAIG...