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

He was three days without sight. — It is natural to think of this period of seclusion from the visible world as one of spiritual communion with the invisible, and we can hardly be wrong in referring the visions and revelations of the Lord, the soaring as to the third heaven, and the Paradise of God, of which he speaks fourteen or fifteen years later, to this period. (See Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:1-4.) The conditions of outward life were suspended, and he lived as one fallen into a trance — in the ecstacy of an apocalyptic rapture. (Comp. the analogous phenomena in Ezekiel 8:1-4.)