Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Acts 22:9
They heard not the voice... — i.e., they did not hear it as a voice uttering articulate words. It was for them as though it thundered. (See Notes on Acts 9:7, and John 12:29.)
They heard not the voice... — i.e., they did not hear it as a voice uttering articulate words. It was for them as though it thundered. (See Notes on Acts 9:7, and John 12:29.)
ACTS 22:9 evqea,santo {B} Although it is possible that the phrase kai. e;mfoboi evge,nonto fell out of the text because of homoeoteleuton, a majority of the Committee was disposed to regard it as a...
See the notes on Acts 9:3. Acts 22:6 AS I MADE MY JOURNEY - As I was on my journey. ABOUT NOON - Acts 26:13, “at mid-day.” This circu
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
WITH. Greek. _sun_. App-104. SAW. beheld. Greek. _theaomai_. App-133. It was no mere lightning flash. Compare "glory", Acts 22:11. AND WERE AFRAID. Omit. HEARD. See note on Acts 9:7. SPAKE. Greek....
_and were afraid_ These words are omitted in the oldest MSS. and have been left out in the _Rev. Ver._But they are not like anything in the other two accounts, the one of which (Acts 9:7) describes Sa...
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
καὶ ἔμφοβοι ἐγένοντο omitted with אABH. Not represented in _Vulg_. 9. The words καὶ ἔμφοβοι ἐγένοντο which appear in the _Text. recept_., but which the chief MSS. omit, are not like other words which...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY ACTS 22:6-16:_ As Paul drew near to Damascus there was a bright light from heaven that flashed around him. This light caused him to fall to the ground. He heard a vo...
ΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 22:5. Part, в роли _subst._ ΈΘΕΆΣΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΘΕΆΟΜΑΙ (G2300) видеть, рассматривать. ΉΚΟΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 22:7. Здесь с _acc._, "сл...
BUT THEY HEARD NOT THE VOICE— See on ch. Acts 9:7....
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
See notes on verse 3...
And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. AND THEY THAT WERE WITH ME SAW INDEED THE LIGHT, AND WERE AFRAID. The external...
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
22:9 voice (b-19) See Note, ch. 9.4....
AND WERE AFRAID] RV omits these words. HEARD NOT] i.e. did not distinguish the words, or understand the meaning of the voice: cp. John 12:29....
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the co...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
Heard not the voice. To reconcile this with chap. ix. ver. 7. where it is said that they heard the voice; it may be answered that they heard a noise, and a voice, but heard it not distinctly, nor so a...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
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...
− 9._They which were with me. _I showed in the other place, that there is no such disagreement in the words of Luke as there seemeth to be. Luke said there, that though Paul’s companions stood amazed,...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
AND THEY THAT WERE WITH ME SAW INDEED THE LIGHT,.... For it shone about them, as well as Saul: AND WERE AFRAID; the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, have not this clause; but...
And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. Ver. 9. _But they heard not_] _See Trapp on "_ Act 9:7 _"_...
_And as I made my journey, &c., about noon_ For all was done in the face of the sun; _suddenly there shone a great light_ By whatever method God reveals himself to us, we shall have everlasting cause...
The conversion of Paul. Chap Acts 9:3-18....
HEARD NOT; see note to chap Acts 9:7....
AND THEY THAT WERE WITH ME SAW INDEED THE LIGHT AND WERE AFRAID, BUT THEY HEARD NOT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT SPAKE TO ME....
The vision on the way:...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
" AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH ME INDEED SAW THE LIGHT AND WERE AFRAID, BUT THEY DID NOT HEAR THE VOICE OF HIM WHO SPOKE TO ME. 1. Here we come to, what some believe to be a contradiction. 1. Acts 9:7 sa...
The men with Paul saw the light and heard the sound, but they did not understand what was spoken to Paul by the Lord. Compare with Acts 9:7....
1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was who...
Of this; SEE POOLE ON "ACTS 9:7". This may be added to what was formerly said, that the men who travelled with Paul may be said not to have heard the voice of him that spake, because they did not unde...
Acts 22:9 And G1161 were G5607 (G5752) with G4862 me G1698 indeed G3303 saw G2300 (G5662) light...
“And those who were with me beheld indeed the light, but they did not hear the voice of him who spoke to me.” Those who were with him had beheld the light. It was not just something internal. They had...
Acts 22:9. AND THEY THAT WERE WITH ME SAW INDEED THE LIGHT, AND WERE AFRAID; BUT THEY HEARD NOT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT SPAKE TO ME. Much has been said as to the seeming discrepancy between the statemen...
BUT THEY HEARD NOT THE VOICE (την δε φωνην ουκ ηκουσαν). The accusative here may be used rather than the genitive as in verse Acts 22:7 to indicate that those with Paul did not understand what they...
VOICE (_ See Scofield) - (Acts 9:7). _...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
AND COMING NEAR DAMASCUS. See notes on Acts 9:3-9. The bright light flashed at the time the sun was the brightest, and was much brighter than the sun (Acts 26:13). SAUL, SAUL. The voice spoke in Hebre...
_And it came to pass that as I made my journey and was come nigh unto Damascus._ THE CONVERSION OF SAUL I. Saul’s misdirected energy. The immense energy of the man is apparent to us at once. 1. Ener...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:6 begins the second part of the defence (Acts 22:6). WAS COME NIGH should be _was drawing near._ The narration is the same as in Acts 9:3 and...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
Acts 9:7; Daniel 10:7; John 12:29; John 12:30...
Heard not [ο υ κ η κ ο υ σ α ν]. The verb is to be taken in the sense of understood, as Mark 4:33; 1 Corinthians 14:2, which explains the apparent discrepancy with ch. 9 7....
They did not hear the voice — Distinctly; but only a confused noise....