Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 26:13
See notes on verse 12
See notes on verse 12
See this passage explained in the notes on Acts 9:5, etc....
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
"When, in these circumstances, I was on my way to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, as I was on the road at midday, I saw, your Majesty. a light from heaven, more brillian...
SAW. Greek. _eidon._ App-133. IN. Greek. _kata_. App-104. LIGHT. Greek. _phos_. App-130. FROM HEAVEN. Greek. _ouranothen._ See Acts 14:17. ABOVE. Greek. _huper._ App-104. BRIGHTNESS. Greek. _lampr...
_at midday_ There could be no question about the supernatural character of a light which overpowered the midday glare of an Eastern sun....
ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ΜΈΣΗΣ, _at midday_. There could be no question about the supernatural character of a light which overpowered the midday glare of an Eastern sun....
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION AND COMMISSION ACTS 26:12-18:_ Paul was on my way to Damascus with the authority from the chief priests when he saw a bright light and heard a voice from heaven. He came to realize...
ΉΜΈΡΑΣ ΜΈΣΗΣ (G2250; G3319 полдень. _Gen._ времени, ΚΑΤΆ ΤΉΝ ΌΔΌΝ по пути, ΕΊΔΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΫ́ _voc. sing. от_ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΣ (G935), О царь! ΟΎΡΑΝΌΘΕΝ (G3771) с небе...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. At mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from he...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
ἡμέρας μέσης : temporal genitive, Blass, _Gram._, p. 107 (in classical Greek ἡμ. μεσοῦσα). The expression is perhaps stronger than in Acts 22:6, in the bright full light of day. κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν : “on th...
OBEDIENT TO HIS HEAVENLY VISION Acts 26:12 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the sun at no...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul's Account of His Conversion and Life Following On his way to Damascus in pursuit of more Christians, Paul reported that he saw a great light, which was brighter than the sun, coming out of heaven...
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
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...
− 13._At midday, O king. _The narration tendeth to this end, that king Agrippa may understand that it was no vain visure or ghost, neither was it any such trance as brought him into some madness, so t...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
AT MIDDAY, O KING,.... So in Acts 12:6. This circumstance is omitted in Acts 9:3. King Agrippa is called upon by the apostle, to excite his attention to what he was about to relate, it being very wond...
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. Ver. 13. _See Trapp on "_ Act 9:2 _"_...
_Whereupon, as I went to Damascus_, &c. See notes on Acts 9:3, and Acts 22:5; where the substance of this paragraph occurs, and is explained. _At mid-day, O king_ Most seasonably, in the height of the...
Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:...
AT MIDDAY, O KING, I SAW IN THE WAY A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, ABOVE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN, SHINING ROUND ABOUT ME AND THEM WHICH JOURNEYED WITH ME....
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
AT MIDDAY, O KING, ALONG THE ROAD I SAY A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN, SHINING AROUND ME AND THOSE WHO JOURNEYED WITH ME. 1. On the way to Damascus, at noon, a bright light began shining...
12-23 Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of Christ both to him and in him; when in the full career of his sin. He was made a minister by Divine authority: the same Jesus who a...
AT MID-DAY; this appeared at noon-day, that it might not be suspected to be a dream or fancy. ABOVE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN; our Saviour's face in the transfiguration _did shine as the sun,_ MATTHEW...
Acts 26:13 midday G2250 G3319 king G935 along G2596 road G3598 saw G1492 (G5627) light G5457 heaven...
“Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round ab...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
Acts 26:13. A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, ABOVE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN, SHINING ROUND ABOUT ME AND THEM WHICH JOURNEYED WITH ME. It has just been mentioned that this blaze of glory suddenly shone round the...
AT MIDDAY (ημερας μεσης). Genitive of time and idiomatic use of μεσος, in the middle of the day, more vivid than μεσημβριαν (Acts 22:6).ABOVE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN (υπερ την λαμπροτητα του ηλι...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
IT WAS FOR THIS PURPOSE. He had gone to Damascus with the idea of trying to crush the Christian movement. This is the third time he tells about his converting to Christ. See Acts 9:1-9 and notes. Here...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_Whereupon as I went to Damascus._ THE CONVERSION OF SAUL OF TARSUS I. His character before his conversion. 1. He was a moral man (Philippians 3:6). Yet he needed conversion. The necessity of conve...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:9. Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since he himself had undergone a similar mental rev...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
Acts 22:6; Acts 9:3; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 30:26; Matthew 17:2;...
Above the brightness of the sun. Peculiar to this third account of Paul's conversion. The other peculiarities are : the falling of his companions to the ground along with himself; the voice addressing...
O King — Most seasonably, in the height of the narration, does he thus fix the king's attention. Above the brightness of the sun — And no marvel. For what is the brightness of this created sun, to the...