Acts 9:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. ”

Acts 9:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As it had been scales - ὡσεὶ λεπίδες hōsei lepides. The word ὡσεὶ hōsei, “as it had been,” is designed to qualify the following word. It is not said that scales literally fell from...
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

immediately . straightway. Greek. eutheos, fell . fell away. Greek. apopipto. Only here. scales. Greek. lepis. Only here in NT. In Septuagint, Leviticus 11:9 ; Leviticus 11:10 . &C....
Acts 9:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. There fell from his eyes as it had been scales. The blindness of Paul, as we have said before did not proceed from fear alone or from amazedness; but by this means was he admonished of h...
Acts 9:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. There fell from his eyes as it had been scales - This was real: he had be...
Acts 9:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There fell from his eyes as it had been scales:— Perhaps the outward coats of his eyes might have been scorched by the heat of that splendid light which he had seen; and what fell from them, might...
Acts 9:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales, х...
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There fell from his eyes as it had been scales. — The description suggests the thought that the blindness was caused by an incrustation, caused by acute inflammation, covering the pupil of the eye,...
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it had been scales ,.... Which were little thin skins or films, like the scales of fishes, which were formed from the defluxions that fell from his brain...
Acts 9:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. Ver. 18. There fell from his eyes ] God also at the same time tore th...
Acts 9:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Ananias went his way With all readiness and joy undertook the message, not presuming to object any further; and entered into the house To which he had been so particularly directed; and putt...
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Scales, as scales of fish: it was no ordinary blindness, nor from any ordinary cause, and could not have been cured by common means.
Acts 9:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's Experience on the Damascus Road (9:1-19).
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - 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 9:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The baptism of Saul:
Acts 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 3:14 ; 2 Corinthians 4:6 ; Acts 13:12 ; Acts 13:13 ; Acts 13:37 ; Acts 13:38 ; Acts 2:38 ; Acts 2:41 ; Acts 22:16
Acts 9:18 - 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 9:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 9:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 9:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 9:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 9:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 9:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 9:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 9:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 9:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 9:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 9:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 9:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 9:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 9:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 9:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 9:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 9:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 9:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 9:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 9:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary