And sent him away to Tarsus. The same group of Jews who had killed Stephen, now wanted to kill Paul. Some think Galatians 1:21 implies Paul went by land through Syria. Johnson thinks Paul went by boat to Seleucia, on the seacoast close to Antioch, and then by land to Tarsus. Four or five years pass before we hear of Paul again (Acts 11:26), during which time he was busy preaching Christ (Galatians 1:21-24; Acts 15:23; Acts 15:41).
Verse 30. _THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CAESAREA_] Calmet contends that this was _Caesarea_ of _Palestine_, and not _Caesarea Philippi_; it being his opinion, and indeed that of others, that where this w...
TO CESAREA - See the notes on Acts 8:40. AND SENT HIM FORTH TO TARSUS - This was his native city. See the notes on Acts 9:11. It was in Cilicia, where Paul doubtless preached the gospel,...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
PAUL AT JERUSALEM. This visit is understood to have taken place very shortly after Saul's conversion; the brethren there have not heard of his conversion, nor of his preaching in Damascus. Barnabas ha...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
When he arrived in Jerusalem he tried to make contact with the disciples. They were all afraid of him because they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the...
WHICH... KNEW. But the brethren having got to know it. Greek. _epiginosko._ App-132. BROUGHT... DOWN. Greek. _katago._ CAESAREA. See Acts 8:40. SENT. Greek. _exapostello._ App-174. See Acts 11:25....
_Which when the brethren knew_ Lit. "And when the brethren knew it." The disciples were informed as those of Damascus had been of the plot in that city. _they brought him down to Cesarea_ i.e. to the...
ἘΠΙΓΝΌΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΟἹ�, _and when the brethren were aware of it_. The disciples in Jerusalem, just as those in Damascus, got information about the plot which was being laid against Saul. ΚΑΤΉΓΑΓΟΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ Ε...
SAUL VISITS JERUSALEM. HE IS SENT AWAY TO TARSUS. THE CHURCHES HAVE REST...
SAUL'S EARLY MINISTRY ACTS 9:19-31 : After his conversion Saul began to build up what he had tried to destroy. Saul went to the Jewish meeting places and immediately started telling people that Jesus...
ΈΠΙΓΝΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1921) осознавать, знать, признавать. Гл. без дополнения, вероятно, является идиоматическим (LC). ΚΑΤΉΓΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΆΓΩ (G2609) пров...
TO CESAREA,— This must have been Caesarea Philippi, near the borders of Syria; as it may be collected from St. Paul's own words, that he went by land through the regions of Syria and Cilicia; see Gala...
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24 For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
AT CAESAREA. Acts 9:30 a. Acts 9:30 And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, 30A When the plan for Saul's death was known he was taken under the protection of the brethren f...
30. In this emergency, the brethren found opportunity to make amends for the suspicion with which they had at first regarded him. (30) "_And when the brethren knew this, they took him down to Cæsarea,...
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. WHICH WHEN THE BRETHREN KNEW, [ epignontes (G1921 ), OR 'CAME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF,'] THEY BROUGHT HIM...
30 Other details of Paul's stay in Jerusalem (not pertinent in this treatise) are interesting. Not only did the brethren lead him away, but the Lord Himself warned him to flee. While he was praying in...
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
The reason why Paul was willing to leave Jerusalem is given in Acts 22:18; (a vision of Jesus in the Temple)....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CÆSAREA. — The fact that the brethren at Jerusalem took these measures for the Apostle’s safety may be noted as a proof of their friendship. At Cæsarea he would probably, as a...
CHAPTER 4 SAUL AND SINAI Acts 9:29 WE have bestowed a great deal of attention upon the incidents at Damascus, because the conversion of Saul of Tarsus is more closely connected with the truth and au...
ἐπιγνόντες : the preposition may signify here as elsewhere accurate and certain knowledge or information a favourite word with St. Luke, in the Gospel seven times, in Acts thirteen times; it was also...
WELCOMED AS A BROTHER Acts 9:23-31 He who feeds on Scripture must wax strong. The new convert started at once to testify of the Savior. We have no right to keep to ourselves the great treasures that...
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 Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
The Persecutor Becomes a Preacher Once he was baptized and had broken his fast by partaking of some food, Saul began to be with the disciples. Saul immediately began preaching in Damascus, then went t...
(8) [Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. (8) The ministers of the word may change their place with the advice and counsel of the congregati...
PAUL'S APOSTOLICAL RECOGNITION 26-30. They had no mails nor telegraphs. News was slow and uncertain. His name had been the terror of Jerusalem. They fear a strategem, and all stand aloof until Barnaba...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. (21) But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jeru...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
30.In that he went to Tarsus, he did it undoubtedly to this end, that he might carry the doctrine of the gospel thither, because he hoped that he should have some favor and authority in his country, w...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
WHICH WHEN THE BRETHREN KNEW,.... When the members of the church heard of it, by some means or another: THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CAESAREA; not that which was before called Strato's tower, the same as...
_Which_ when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. Ver. 30. _To Tarsus_] His own country, that he might there break the bread of life where he first drew...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem_, &c. It must be observed here, that the history of Paul's preaching at Damascus, going into Arabia, and visiting Jerusalem, is somewhat intricate, and interpreter...
CESAREA; chap Acts 8:40. TARSUS; his native city. Verse Acts 9:11....
WHICH WHEN THE BRETHREN KNEW, THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CAESAREA, AND SENT HIM FORTH TO TARSUS....
Saul at Jerusalem:...
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 filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
WHEN THE BRETHREN FOUND OUT, THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CAESAREA AND SENT HIM OUT TO TARSUS. 1. The brethren protected Saul. They got him out of town, sent him to Caesarea. 2. From there he went back...
"And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus"Caesarea" (sees uh REE uh). Located 65 miles from Jerusalem on the Mediterranean, this was the major sea...
23-31 When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was a...
CAESAREA; there were two towns of this name, one a coast town, spoken of, ACTS 8:40; the other was called Caesarea Philippi, nigh Mount Lebanon. TARSUS, St. Paul's birth place, where amongst his relat...
30. In this emergency, the brethren found opportunity to make amends for the suspicion with which they had at first regarded him. (30) " And when the brethren knew this, they took him down to Cæsarea,...
Acts 9:30 When G1161 brethren G80 out G1921 (G5631) brought G2609 him G846 down G2609 (G5627) to...
‘And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.' Once the members of the Jerusalem church recognised what was happening they immediately took him to Ca...
Acts 9:30. WHICH WHEN THE BRETHREN KNEW, THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CÆSAREA. The writer of the ‘Acts' tells us, it was in consequence of the enmity of the Jews, who feared the able and powerful argument...
KNEW IT (επιγνοντες). Second aorist active participle of επιγινωσκω, to know fully. The disciples saw it clearly, so theyCONDUCTED (κατηγαγον, effective second aorist active indicative of καταγω)...
Acts 9:19 Damascus Arabia Jerusalem. We see from this chapter: I. The minute care which God has over His people. He gives to Ananias the street and the house in the great city of Damascus where Paul...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_ Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings a...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
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 this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he essayed to Join himself to the disciples._ SAUL’S EMOTIONS ON RETURNING TO JERUSALEM He was returning to it from a spiritual as Ezra had from a bodily captivit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:30 On CAESAREA, see note on 8:40. Paul’s hometown of Tarsus was a strategically important city in southeast Asia Minor on the road from Syria into central Asia Minor. Paul calls it...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:27. BARNABAS (Acts 4:36) appears here as the patron of Saul, whom he takes by the hand (not literally, but metaphorically), and introduces to the apostles. Acts 9:28, should...
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
Acts 8:40; Acts 11:25; Acts 17:10; Acts 17:15; Acts 9:11;...
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...