Delivering thee from the people, &c.— "And thou shalt experience my gracious presence with thee, delivering thee from the rage and malice of the Jewish people; and also from the dangers which thou shalt encounter among the Gentiles, to whom I now send thee."
Verse Acts 26:17. _DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE_] From the _Jews-and_ from _the Gentiles_, put here in opposition to the _Jews_; and both meaning _mankind_ at large, wheresoever the providence of G...
DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE - From the Jewish people. This implied that he would be persecuted by them, and that the Lord Jesus would interpose to rescue him. AND FROM THE GENTILES - This also imp...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
"When, in these circumstances, I was on my way to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, as I was on the road at midday, I saw, your Majesty. a light from heaven, more brillian...
DELIVERING. Greek. _exaireo._ See Acts 7:10. PEOPLE. Greek. _laos._ See Acts 2:47. GENTILES. Greek. _ethnos._ Contrast Acts 26:4. NOW. Omit. SEND. Greek. _apostello._ App-174....
_delivering thee_ i.e. though they may and will seize upon thee and persecute thee, yet I am with thee and will save thee from their hands. From the first the Apostle knew that in every city persecuti...
ἘΞΑΙΡΟΎΜΕΝΌΣ ΣΕ ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΛΑΟΥ͂, _delivering thee from the people_. The verb implies that the Apostle will be seized, and that the deliverance will be a rescue. From the first even in Damascus Saul foun...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION AND COMMISSION ACTS 26:12-18:_ Paul was on my way to Damascus with the authority from the chief priests when he saw a bright light and heard a voice from heaven. He came to realize...
ΈΞΑΙΡΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med._ (_indir. med._, "для себя") _part. (conymcme.)_ от ΈΞΑΙΡΈΩ (G1807) спасать, забирать, выбирать, ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) _praes. ind. act._ посылать или давать поручения официально...
DISCOURSE: 1811 PAUL’S COMMISSION Acts 26:17. _Unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forg...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
See notes on verse 12...
DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE, AND FROM THE GENTILES, UNTO WHOM NOW I SEND THEE, Delivering thee from the people (of the Jews), and from the Gentiles. He was all along the object of Jewish Deliver...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
FROM THE GENTILES, UNTO WHOM NOW I SEND THEE. — The distinct mission to the Gentiles seems, in Acts 22:21, to be connected with the trance in the Temple, three years after the conversion. Galatians 1:...
ἐξαιρούμενός σε : “delivering,” A. and R.V. Vulgate, _eripiens_, and so the word is elsewhere rendered in N.T., _cf._ Acts 7:10; Acts 7:34; Acts 12:11; Acts 23:27;...
OBEDIENT TO HIS HEAVENLY VISION Acts 26:12 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the sun at no...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul's Account of His Conversion and Life Following On his way to Damascus in pursuit of more Christians, Paul reported that he saw a great light, which was brighter than the sun, coming out of heaven...
_Delivering thee, &c. That is, from many attempts, both of the Jews and Gentiles, against thee. (Witham)_...
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 17._Delivering thee. _He is armed in this place against all fear, which was prepared for him; and also he is prepared to bear the cross; notwithstanding, seeing he addeth immediately that Paul shoul...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE,.... That is, the people of the Jews, as they are distinguished from the Gentiles; and so the Syriac version, and two of Beza's copies, and two of Stephens's, read; for...
Delivering thee from the people, and _from_ the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, Ver. 17. _Delivering thee from_] For though thou art sent to them for their greatest good, viz. "To open their eye...
_But rise and stand upon thy feet_ Though thou hast persecuted me and my followers in this outrageous manner, and hast been engaged in a desperate attempt to destroy them from the face of the earth, a...
FROM THE PEOPLE; that is of the Jews. SEND THEE; chap Acts 22:21....
DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE AND FROM THE GENTILES, UNTO WHOM NOW I SEND THEE,...
Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
I WILL DELIVER YOU FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AS WELL AS FROM THE GENTILES, TO WHOM I NOW SEND YOU. 1. Jesus tells Paul that he would be rescued from the Jewish people. Jesus knows that many of Paul's f...
"delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom. send thee"Delivering thee from the people" "The people in this sentence refers to the Jews who wouldn't accept the gospel message. N...
12-23 Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of Christ both to him and in him; when in the full career of his sin. He was made a minister by Divine authority: the same Jesus who a...
FROM THE PEOPLE; from this people of the Jews, so in some copies it is expressed; howsoever, by the antithesis, AND FROM THE GENTILES, it is plainly to be understood: and God undertakes no less hereby...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "Wherefore, then, I send thee to the Gentiles," it is said, "to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God; th...
Acts 26:17 deliver G1807 (G5734) you G4571 from G1537 people G2992 well G2532 Gentiles G1484 to G1519 whom...
“Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remi...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
Acts 26:17. DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE, AND FROM THE GENTILES, UNTO WHOM NOW I SEND THEE. The memory of these words of the Son of God armed the apostle of the future against all the terrors which...
DELIVERING THEE (εξαιρουμενος σε). Present middle participle of εξαιρεω, old verb and usually so rendered, but the old Greek also uses it for "choose" as also in LXX (Isaiah 48:10). The papyri give...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
IT WAS FOR THIS PURPOSE. He had gone to Damascus with the idea of trying to crush the Christian movement. This is the third time he tells about his converting to Christ. See Acts 9:1-9 and notes. Here...
_But rise, and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee to make thee a minister and a witness._ CHRISTIANITY SELF-ATTESTED If you had given you what was asserted to be a speech made long ag...
_Whereupon as I went to Damascus._ THE CONVERSION OF SAUL OF TARSUS I. His character before his conversion. 1. He was a moral man (Philippians 3:6). Yet he needed conversion. The necessity of conve...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:9. Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since he himself had undergone a similar mental rev...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 4:8;...
The people. The Jews....
Delivering thee from the people — The Jews and the Gentiles, to whom, both Jews and Gentiles, I now send thee — Paul gives them to know, that the liberty he enjoys even in bonds, was promised to him,...