Acts 9:1

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Saul - See the notes on Acts 7:58 ; Acts 8:3 . He had been engaged be fore in persecuting the Christians, but he now sought opportunity to...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And (1) Saul, yet (a) breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, (1) Saul (who is also P...
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 ch...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And . But, or Now. breathing out. Greek. empneo. Only here. threatenings. Greek. apeile. See Acts 4:17 . slaughter . murder. Greek. ph...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. And Saul. Luke setteth down in this place a noble history, and a history full well worthy to be remembered, concerning the conversion of...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, Saul, yet breathing out threaten...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, &c.— This is a very emphatical expression, and shews the implacable hatred which Saul bore to the Chr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 9:1-6 Chapter 2 THE CONVERSION OF THE PERSECUTOR. Acts 8:3 ; Acts 9:1-6 WE have in the last chapter traced the course of St. Paul's...
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Winning a Persecutor Acts 9:1-9 A year had passed since Acts 8:3 . “The Way” had become the accepted phrase for the infant Church and its pres...
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 Nazare...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The wonderful History of Saul's Conversion. The Effect it had upon the Jews. Peter healeth Eneas, and raiseth Tabitha from the dead.
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, (2) And desired of him letters t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter ,.... The historian having given an account of the dispersion of all the preachers of the Gosp...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, Ver. 1. And Saul yet breathi...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Saul, yet (ετι , adhuc, hitherto , or still ) breathing out threatenings and slaughter This very emphatical expression refers to what is re...
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 fil...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and asked of him letters to Damascus...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 9:1 . And should be but directing attention once more to Saul. Breathing out .— Breathing in better renders the verb...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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l, 2. And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him let...
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Acts 9:1 . And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,- Notice that litt...
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 t...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples. Saul, a persecutor Saul was an educated young man, and that he sh...
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 s...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 22:3 , &c; Acts 26:9 , &c.

¹ And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

Related Commentaries of Acts 9:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 9:1