“ For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. ”
For I will show him ... - This seems to be added to encourage Ananias. He had feared Saul. The Lord now informs him that Saul, hitherto his enemy, would ever after be his friend. He would not mer...
For I will (h) shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. (h) I will plainly show him.
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...
shew . forewarn. Greek. hupodeiknumi. Occurs elsewhere Acts 20:35 . Matthew 3:7 ; Luke 3:7 ; Luke 6:47 ; Luke 12:5 . suffer. See 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 . for My name's sake . on behalf o...
16. And because. Paul could not do this, and have Satan quiet, and the world to yield to him willingly; therefore Luke addeth, that he shall be also taught to bear the cross. For the meaning...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. How great things he must suffer - Instead of proceeding as a persecutor, and inflicting sufferings on others, I will show him h...
I will shew him how great things he must suffer— If this intimates, as some very learned commentators seem to think, that Saul should presently have a revelation, and perhaps a visionary representa...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. For I will show him, х hupodeixoo ( G5263 )]. The word signifies to 'indicate' or 'hint,' rather than to manifest p...
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...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer... — The words are spoken as by One who knows “what is in man” ( John 2:25 ), their secret motives, and springs of action. With characters of a l...
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...
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...
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...
THE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE ‘For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake.’ Acts 9:16 God is revealing to Ananias His purposes concerning Saul, whom He had just called t...
For I will show him ,.... In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him: how great things he must suffer for my name's sake ; such as weariness, pain, an...
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. Ver. 16. How great things he must suffer ] Opposition is (as Calvin wrote to the French king) Evangelii genius, the evil...
But the Lord said, Go thy way Do not tell me how bad he has been; I know it well; but go with all speed, and execute that message of mercy with which I have charged thee; for How great and aggrav...
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,...
Ananias Sent to Saul; Ananias Restores Saul's Sight; Saul Associates with the Disciples; Saul Preaches Christ at Damascus. 10 An...
He shall suffer as great things as he ever did cause or inflict; the hatred of his own countrymen the Jews, and the fury of the Gentiles: see the catalogue of them, 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 . And we...
Saul's Experience on the Damascus Road (9:1-19).
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 9:1-19 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 9:1-2 . 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 9:1 . 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...
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...
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.,...
The objection of Ananias answered:
1 Corinthians 4:9-13 ; 1 Peter 4:14 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 ; 2 Timothy 1:12 ; 2 Timothy 2:10 ; 2 Timothy 2:9 ; 2 Timothy 3:11 ; Acts 20:22 ; Acts 20:23 ; Acts 21:11 ; Acts 9:14 ; Isaiah...
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...
For I — Do thou as thou art commanded. I will take care of the rest; will show him — In fact, through the whole course of his ministry. How great things he must suffer — So far will he be now from...