Acts 9:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. ”

Acts 9:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have heard by many ... - This was in the vision, Acts 9:10 . The passage of such a train of thoughts through the mind was perfectly natural at the command to go and search out Saul. There woul...
Acts 9:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Acts 9:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

authority. Greek. exousia. App-172. call, &c. See note on Acts 2:21 .
Acts 9:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. He hath power to bind. We gather by these words, that the fame of the persecution which Saul went about (590) was spread far and wide; for which cause his conversion was (591) more fam...
Acts 9:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. And here he hath authority, etc. - Ananias had undoubtedly heard of Saul's coming, and the commission he had recei...
Acts 9:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. Thus it would seem th...
Acts 9:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 Chri...
Acts 9:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All that call on thy name. — Here again we have to trace the growth of a new terminology. The description of the disciples of the Lord Jesus as those who called upon or invoked His name, had its or...
Acts 9:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 be...
Acts 9:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Acts 9:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. (11) And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into th...
Acts 9:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And here he hath authority from the chief priests ,.... His fury and madness against the saints did not stop at Jerusalem, but he had received a commission from the sanhedrim to go to Damascus, wher...
Acts 9:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. Ver. 14. And here he hath authority ] Therefore he was more than 20 years old (as Ambrose and Theodoret make h...
Acts 9:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then Ananias Astonished to hear such a name mentioned in such a connection; answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man What a malicious enemy he is to thy gospel: all those who were scatter...
Acts 9:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Acts 9:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ananias Sent to Saul; Ananias Restores Saul's Sight; Saul Associates with the Disciples; Saul Preaches Christ at Damascus. 10 An...
Acts 9:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Here Ananias shows the strengh of his excuse; for flesh and blood cried in him, as in Moses, Exodus 4:13 , Send by him whom thou wilt send.
Acts 9:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's Experience on the Damascus Road (9:1-19).
Acts 9:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 9:10 . That Ananias (see on Acts 9:1 ) was one of the Seventy is an unsupported conjecture; that he was a “devout” man Saul afterwards asserts ( Acts 22:12 ); that he had...
Acts 9:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 9:1-19 The Conversion of St. Paul. That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are His captured ene...
Acts 9:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 9:1-2 . 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 h...
Acts 9:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 wha...
Acts 9:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave. The heavenly light As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We ha...
Acts 9:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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.,...
Acts 9:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The objection of Ananias answered:
Acts 9:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 2 Timothy 2:22 ; Acts 22:16 ; Acts 7:59 ; Acts 9:2 ; Acts 9:21 ; Acts 9:3 ; Romans 10:12-14
Acts 9:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Saul's Conversion: A Pattern and a Prophecy 1 Timothy 1:15-16 ; with Acts 9:1-43 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road i...
Acts 9:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

All that call on thy name — That is, all Christians.

Acts 9:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 9:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 9:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 9:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 9:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 9:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 9:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 9:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 9:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 9:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 9:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 9:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 9:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 9:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 9:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 9:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 9:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 9:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 9:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 9:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 9:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes