Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT

Acts 9:6

So he, trembling and astonished, said, " Lord, what do You want me to do? " Then the Lord said to him, " Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. "

1. There is some dispute if the use of "Lord" here is again a polite term OR if Saul realized that this is the Lord Jesus Christ.

2. "What do you want me to do?" - Saul is now asking, how can the problem be corrected? What can be done to turn this situation around?

3. Some believe that Saul was "saved" at this point. He now believed that this was Jesus and he was saved. The next verses (and the parallel accounts later in Acts) do not support this idea. Saul was not saved at this point.

4. Jesus did not say, "You don't have to do anything. You are now saved." Jesus said, "Go into the city and wait. Someone will come and tell you what you must do."

5. NOTE : There is something that Saul must do. He must be told what to do. He needed some instruction on how he could be forgiven of this wrong.

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Acts 9:6

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