Acts 22:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. ”

• Acts 22:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And now why tarriest thou? - Why dost thou delay, or wait any longer? These words are not recorded by Luke in Acts 9 , where he has given an account of the conversion of Paul; but there is nothi...

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• Acts 22:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 year...

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• Acts 22:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  baptized . App-115. The verb is in Mid. Voice. wash away . Greek. apolouo. App-136 and App-185. sins . Greek. hamartia. App-128. calling on . See note on Acts 2:21 . the name . See note...

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• Acts 22:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 16. And now, why tarriest thou? It is not to be doubted but that Ananias did faithfully instruct Paul in the principles of godliness; for he would not have baptized him if he had been void...

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• Acts 22:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1806 CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL Acts 22:16 . And now, why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord . THE conversion of St. Paul, tak...

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• Acts 22:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. Arise, and be baptized - Take now the profession of Christ's faith most solemnly upon thee,...

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• Acts 22:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Be baptized,— Baptism, in respect to adults, except in the very peculiar instance of our Lord, was a token of confession and humiliation for sin; and of a desire to be cleansed from it, as the bo...

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• Acts 22:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. And now why tarriest thou? arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins And now why...

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• Acts 22:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• Acts 22:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. — Here, again, we have words which are not in the narrative of Acts 9 . They show that for the Apostle that baptism was no formal or ceremonial act,...

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• Acts 22:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  How His Life Was Changed Acts 22:1-16 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 fill...

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• Acts 22:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Acts 22:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 22:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now why tarriest thou ?.... Though it might not be the apostle's case, yet it is often the case of many, to procrastinate and delay obedience to the commands of Christ, and particularly to the o...

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• Acts 22:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. Ver. 16. Wash away thy sins ] By being inwardly baptized in the blood of Christ, by his...

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• Acts 22:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 c...

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• Acts 22:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 22:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul's First Defence.       3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the...

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• Acts 22:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wash away thy sins; as washing causeth the spots to disappear, and to be as if they had not been, Isaiah 1:18 ; so does pardoning mercy, or remission of sins, which accompanieth baptism, as in t...

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• Acts 22:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “And now why do you linger? Arise, and be baptised, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.” He had then been told that he must not delay in being baptised in the name of ‘the Lord Jesus' (Jes...

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• Acts 22:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 22:6 begins the second part of the defence ( Acts 22:6-16 ). Was come nigh should be was drawing near. The narration is the same as in Acts 9:3-17 and Acts 26:13-18...

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• Acts 22:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

  sins Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).

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• Acts 22:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 22:1-2 . 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),...

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• Acts 22:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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....

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• Acts 22:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 t...

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• Acts 22:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 class...

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• Acts 22:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Paul and Ananias:

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• Acts 22:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 1 Corinthians 12:13 ; 1 Corinthians 6:11 ; 1 Peter 3:21 ; Acts 2:21 ; Acts 2:38 ; Acts 9:14 ; Galatians 3:27 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Jeremiah 8:14 ; Psalms 119:60 ; Romans 1...

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• Acts 22:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Be baptized, and wash away thy sins — Baptism administered to real penitents, is both a means and seal of pardon. Nor did God ordinarily in the primitive Church bestow this on any, unless through t...

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