Barnabas. See note on Acts 4:36.
took. laid hold of. Greek. epilambanomai. Occurs twelve times in Luke and Acts. Mostly of helping or arresting.
apostles. App-189.
declared. related. Greek. diegeomai. See note on Acts 8:33.
spoken. Greek. laleo. App-121.
preached boldly. spoke without reserve. Greek. parrhiesiazomai. Occurs elsewhere, Acts 9:29; Acts 13:46; Acts 14:3; Acts 18:26; Acts 19:8; Acts 26:26; Ephesians 6:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:2.
Verse Acts 9:27. _BARNABAS - BROUGHT HIM TO THE APOSTLES_] That is, to Peter and James; for _others of the apostles he saw none_, Galatians 1:19. It appears that he went up at this time to Jerusalem...
BUT BARNABAS - See the notes on Acts 4:36. Barnabas was of Cyprus, not far from Tarsus, and it is not improbable that he had been before acquainted with Saul. TO THE APOSTLES - To Peter and James, Gal...
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 AT JERUSALEM. This visit is understood to have taken place very shortly after Saul's conversion; the brethren there have not heard of his conversion, nor of his preaching in Damascus. Barnabas ha...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
When he arrived in Jerusalem he tried to make contact with the disciples. They were all afraid of him because they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the...
_But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles_ i.e. to such of the Apostles as happened to be then in Jerusalem. During a short space of fifteen days it is easy to understand that all but Pe...
SAUL VISITS JERUSALEM. HE IS SENT AWAY TO TARSUS. THE CHURCHES HAVE REST...
ΒΑΡΝΆΒΑΣ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ., _but Barnabas took him and brought him to the Apostles_, i.e. to such of the Apostles as happened to be then in Jerusalem. During a short space of fifteen days it is easy to unders...
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...
ΈΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (сопутств.) от_ ΈΠΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΟΜΑΙ (G1949) поддерживать, заботиться о ком-л., быть заинтересованным в ком-л. В папирусах это слово встречается в значении: "заботиться и...
AND WHEN SAUL WAS COME TO JERUSALEM— Upon his escaping from Damascus, St. Paul went up to Jerusalem, where he had never been since his conversion to Christianity; and thither he went chiefly to visit...
IN JERUSALEM. Acts 9:26-29. Galatians 1:17 b - Galatians 1:19. Acts 9:26 And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himsel
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 26...
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the na...
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...
TO THE APOSTLES] according to Galatians 1, Paul stayed in Jerusalem fifteen days, and of the Apostles saw only Peter and James the Lord's brother....
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...
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...
BUT BARNABAS TOOK HIM. — What, we ask, made Barnabas more ready than others, not only to receive the convert himself, but to vouch for his sincerity? The answer is found in the inference that the Levi...
Βαρνάβας, _cf._ Acts 4:36. Saul and Barnabas may have been previously acquainted, see J. Lightfoot, _Hor. Heb._, and note on Acts 4:36. St. Chrysostom, _Hom._, xxi. (so Theophylact and Oecumenius), se...
WELCOMED AS A BROTHER Acts 9:23-31 He who feeds on Scripture must wax strong. The new convert started at once to testify of the Savior. We have no right to keep to ourselves the great treasures that...
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...
Brought him to the apostles Peter and James. See Galatians i. 18. and 19....
PAUL'S APOSTOLICAL RECOGNITION 26-30. They had no mails nor telegraphs. News was slow and uncertain. His name had been the terror of Jerusalem. They fear a strategem, and all stand aloof until Barnaba...
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...
27._When Barnabas had taken him. _Whereas the disciples fled so fast from Paul, that was, peradventure, a point of too great fearfulness, (621) and yet he speaketh of none of the common sort, but of t...
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...
BUT BARNABAS TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE APOSTLES,.... To Peter and James, the brother of our Lord, for no other apostles did he see at this time, Galatians 1:18. It is probable that Barnabas had...
But Barnabas took him, and brought _him_ to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the n...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem_, &c. It must be observed here, that the history of Paul's preaching at Damascus, going into Arabia, and visiting Jerusalem, is somewhat intricate, and interpreter...
BARNABAS; chap Acts 4:36....
BUT BARNABAS TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE APOSTLES, AND DECLARED UNTO THEM HOW HE HAD SEEN THE LORD IN THE WAY, AND THAT HE HAD SPOKEN TO HIM, AND HOW HE HAD PREACHED BOLDLY AT DAMASCUS IN THE NAM...
Saul at Jerusalem:...
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,...
BUT BARNABAS TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT _HIM_ TO THE APOSTLES. AND HE DECLARED TO THEM HOW HE HAD SEEN THE LORD ON THE ROAD, AND THAT HE HAD SPOKEN TO HIM, AND HOW HE HAD PREACHED BOLDLY AT DAMASCUS IN THE...
"But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the na...
23-31 When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was a...
Of BARNABAS mention is made, ACTS 4:36, who is thought to have been Paul's fellow disciple under Gamaliel. BROUGHT HIM TO THE APOSTLES; these apostles, to whom Barnabas brought Paul, were Peter and Ja...
Acts 9:27 But G1161 Barnabas G921 took G1949 (G5637) him G846 brought G71 (G5627) to G4314 apostles...
‘But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name...
Acts 9:27. BUT BARNABAS TOOK HIM. Barnabas, a Levite of the island of Cyprus, early a disciple of Christ, and, according to Eusebius and Clement of Alexandria, one of the ‘seventy,' in the first days...
TOOK HIM (επιλαβομενος). Second aorist middle (indirect) participle of επιλαμβανω, common verb to lay hold of. Barnabas saw the situation and took Saul to himself and listened to his story and belie...
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 9:1. _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...
THEN BARNABAS CAME TO HIS HELP. We met Barnabas in Acts 4:36. Like Paul, he was a Greek-speaking Jew. He may have known Paul personally,...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he essayed to Join himself to the disciples._ SAUL’S EMOTIONS ON RETURNING TO JERUSALEM He was returning to it from a spiritual as Ezra had from a bodily captivit...
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 9:27 BARNABAS... BROUGHT HIM TO THE APOSTLES (in Jerusalem). According to Galatians 1:18, this visit took place three years
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:27. BARNABAS (Acts 4:36) appears here as the patron of Saul, whom he takes by the hand (not literally, but metaphorically), and introduces to the apostles. Acts 9:28, should...
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 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Corinthians 9:6; Acts 11:22; Acts 11:25; A
Declared [δ ι η γ η σ α τ ο]. Related throughout. See on Luke 8:39; and compare on declaration, Luke 1:1. Had preached boldly [ε π α ρ ρ η σ ι α σ α τ ο]. See on freely, ch. 2 29....
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...
To the apostles — Peter and James, Galatians 1:18. And declared — He who has been an enemy to the truth ought not to be trusted till he gives proof that he is changed....