Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 22:14
See notes on verse 3
See notes on verse 3
Verse Acts 22:14. _AND SEE THAT JUST ONE_] The Lord Jesus, called the _Just_ _One_, in opposition to the Jews, who crucified him as a _malefactor_: Acts 7:52, Acts 7:52. This is an additional proof t...
SHOULDEST KNOW HIS WILL - His will in the plan of salvation, and in regard to your future life. AND SEE THAT JUST ONE - The Messiah. See the notes on Acts 3:14. As Paul was to be an apostle, and as it...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
"Because I was not able to see because of the glory of that light, I came into Damascus led by the hand by those who were with me. And Ananias, a pious man as regards the Law, a man to whose character...
CHOSEN. destined. Greek. _procheirizomai._ Only here and Acts 26:16. Not the same as in Acts 1:2, &c. THAT THOU SHOULDEST KNOW. to know. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132. WILL. Greek. _thelema._ App-102....
_The God of our fathers_, &c. Ananias spake naturally as one Jew to another. At the commencement of the Christian Church there was no thought of a rupture with Judaism, and nothing is more to be notic...
Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΑΤΈΡΩΝ ἩΜΩ͂Ν, _the God of our fathers_. Ananias spake naturally as one Jew to another. At the commencement of the Christian Church there was no thought of a rupture with Judaism, and noth...
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY ACTS 22:6-16:_ As Paul drew near to Damascus there was a bright light from heaven that flashed around him. This light caused him to fall to the ground. He heard a vo...
ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 22:8. ΠΡΟΕΧΕΙΡΊΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΧΕΙΡΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G4400) брать в руки заранее, планировать, намереваться, определять (RWP). ΓΝΏΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΓΙ...
AND SEE THAT JUST ONE,— Some commentators refer this to a future vision of Christ, and a future commission to be received from him; but it clearly appears from St. Paul's own narration, that he had al...
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. And he said, The God of our fathers hath cho...
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
22:14 voice (b-27) See Note, ch. 9.4....
THAT JUST ONE] see Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52...
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS... — The report of what was said by Ananias is somewhat fuller than in Acts 9:17, and gives in outline what had been spoken to him by the Lord. It is obviously implied in Acts 9...
ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατ. ἡμῶν : again a conciliatory phrase, _cf._ Acts 7:32, so St. Peter in Acts 3:13; Acts 5:30. προεχειρ.: “hath appointed,” only in Acts in N.T., Acts 3:20, and in
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the co...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
In Damascus, a devout, God-fearing man came to Paul, restored his sight and told him God had appointed him to know his will, see the righteous one and hear his voice. He further said God planned for h...
_Shouldst...see the Just One. Our Saviour appeared to St. Paul, as it is said; (chap. ix. 7.) and he is divers times, both in the Prophets and in the Testament, called the Just One. (Witham) --- To se...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 14._The God of our fathers. _As nothing is more fit to provoke us joyfully to go forward toward God, than when we know that God doth prevent us with his free goodness, that he may call us back from...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
AND HE SAID, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE,.... From all eternity, in his everlasting purposes and decrees; or "he hath taken thee into his hand"; in order to form, and fit, and qualify him...
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good repor...
_And as I made my journey, &c., about noon_ For all was done in the face of the sun; _suddenly there shone a great light_ By whatever method God reveals himself to us, we shall have everlasting cause...
SHOULDEST-SEE THAT JUST ONE; Jesus Christ. Chap Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52. See also note to chap Acts 9:17. Persecutors of Christ and his cause are sometimes made his cordial friends, and eminently instrum...
Paul and Ananias:...
AND HE SAID, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE THAT THOU SHOULDEST KNOW HIS WILL AND SEE THAT JUST ONE, AND SHOULDEST HEAR THE VOICE OF HIS MOUTH....
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
THEN HE SAID, ‘THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HAS CHOSEN YOU THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW HIS WILL, AND SEE THE JUST ONE, AND HEAR THE VOICE OF HIS MOUTH. 1. God has chosen Paul for a special purpose. 2. Paul will:...
This sight was instantly restored; another proof that what had happened on the road was an actual encounter with God. Acts 22:14 Paul now begins to explain why Jesus had appeared to him. "The God of o...
12-21 The apostle goes on to relate how he was confirmed in the change he had made. The Lord having chosen the sinner, that he should know his will, he is humbled, enlightened, and brought to the kno...
OLBGrk; THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS; nothing could please the people better than to hear God so styled; for this they gloried in, above all things, that they and theirs had God to their Father, 1 THESSALON...
Acts 22:14 Then G1161 said G2036 (G5627) God G2316 our G2257 fathers G3962 chosen G4400 (G5662) you...
“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.' ” And Ananias, this pious and respected godly Jew, had told...
Acts 22:14. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE. Another appeal to Jewish thought. Paul here reproduces what ‘the young man whose name was Saul,' heard from the lips of the first martyr Stephen tw...
HATH APPOINTED THEE (προεχειρισατο). First aorist middle indicative of προχειριζω, old verb to put forth into one's hands, to take into one's hands beforehand, to plan, propose, determine. In the N....
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. He was a Christian (Acts 9:10), but kept the Law strictly. BROTHER SAUL, SEE AGAIN! See Acts 9:17-18 and notes. THE GOD OF OUR ANCESTORS. Compare Acts 7:32;...
_And one Ananias … said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee._ THE DIVINE ORDINATION OF HUMAN LIFE The verb here translated, “chosen,” only occurs in this form in one other place (Acts 26:16), w...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 22:12 For his Jewish hearers, Paul stressed the faithfulness of ANANIAS. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:6 begins the second part of the defence (Acts 22:6). WAS COME NIGH should be _was drawing near._ The narration is the same as in Acts 9:3 and...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
1 Chronicles 12:17; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Corinthians 11:23; 1 Corinthians 15:3;...
The God of our fathers - Just One. A conciliatory touch in Paul's speech, mentioning both God and Christ by their Jewish names. Compare ch. Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52. Hath chosen [π ρ ο ε χ ε ι ρ ι σ α τ ο...