Acts 26:20

but shewed[R. V.declared] The word signifies the delivery of a message. Saul was henceforth God's evangelist.

and at Jerusalem Cp. Acts 9:29. Here he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians, so that they went about to kill him.

and throughout all the coasts of Judæa Of this ministration we are only told, Acts 9:30, that the brethren finding Saul in danger in Jerusalem, brought him to Cæsarea, and thence sent him to Tarsus. But as we see in the history of Felix (cp. Acts 23:34, note) that Cilicia was sometimes reckoned as a part of the province of Judæa, the preaching in Cilicia may be included in the expression "country of Judæa." And we may feel sure that Paul, wherever he might be, never laid aside the character which Christ's mission had imposed upon him.

and do works meet for repentance] Rev. Ver., more literally and better, "doing works worthy of repentance" or "worthy of their repentance." For the works were to be a sign of their repentance and turning unto God; the means whereby the reality of their sorrow, and the earnestness of their desire, was to be shewn.