the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Acts 26:12
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"I was headed to Damascus on one of these missions. I was armed with the authority and commission of the church.
"While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
"While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests,
And when, [engaged] in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,
Acts 9:1-19; 22:6-16">[xr] "While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
"I was traveling to Damascus under these circumstances with authority and a commission from the chief priests.
"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
Whereupon as I was going to Damascus,
"While thus engaged, I was travelling one day to Damascus armed with authority and a commission from the High Priests,
Whereupon, as I went to Damascus, with authoritie and commission from the chiefe Priests:
In which also traveling to Damascus with authority and decision power from the chief priests,
Aboute which thinges as I wente towarde Damascon with auctorite and lycence of the hye prestes,
with such views, authorized by commission from the high priests, I was on the road to Damascus:
"One day on my way to Damascus, armed as always with papers from the high priests authorizing my action, right in the middle of the day a blaze of light, light outshining the sun, poured out of the sky on me and my companions. Oh, King, it was so bright! We fell flat on our faces. Then I heard a voice in Hebrew: ‘Saul, Saul, why are you out to get me? Why do you insist on going against the grain?'
"While so engaged, as I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission and full power of the chief priests,
Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
"Thus I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
About the which thinges as I went to Damasco with auctorite and licence of the hye Prestes
Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
Upon which as I went to Damascus, with authority and commission from the chief priests,
`In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --
"One time the leading priests gave me permission and the power to go to Damascus.
"While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
In this pursuit, I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
King Agrippa, one day I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and permission of the chief priests.
"On one such occasion, I was traveling to Dammesek with the full authority and power of the head cohanim.
"In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
At which time, euen as I went to Damascus with authoritie, and commission from the hie Priests,
I was on the way to Damascus for this purpose, with authority and commission from the chief priests, when,
"Whereupon as I journeyed to Dammesek with the authority and commission from the chief Kohanim,
"That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.Acts 9:3; 22:6;">[xr]
And while going on this account to Darmsuk, with authority and permission from the great priests,
And, as I was going for this purpose to Damascus, with the authority and license of the chief priests,
"One day I was on such a mission to Damascus, armed with the authority and commission of the leading priests.
"When I was going to Damascus to do this, I had the right and the power from the head religious leaders to make it hard for the followers.
Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
"With this in mind, I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
Among which things, being on a journey unto Damascus, with the authority and commission of the High-priests,
Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and permission of the chief priest,
In this activity I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and full power of the chief priests.
About which thynges, as I went to Damascus, with auctoritie and commission of the hye priestes:
"One time the leading priests gave me permission and the authority to go to the city of Damascus.
"While so engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
"It was for this purpose that I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests.
In whiche, the while Y wente to Damask, with power and suffring of princis of preestis,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as: Acts 9:1, Acts 9:2, Acts 22:5
with: Acts 26:10, 1 Kings 21:8-10, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Isaiah 10:1, Jeremiah 26:8, Jeremiah 29:26, Jeremiah 29:27, John 7:45-48, John 11:57
Reciprocal: Acts 9:3 - as Acts 22:6 - that
Cross-References
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord .
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whereupon as I went to Damascus,.... Being intent, upon the above said things, to punish the saints, compel them to blaspheme, imprison them, and even put them to death on account of these things; upon this errand and business he went to Damascus, the chief city of Syria, where he knew there were many that believed in Christ, who had removed from Jerusalem thither, on account of the persecution, or were settled there before:
with authority and commission from the chief priests; the Jewish sanhedrim, to bring those of them at Damascus bound to Jerusalem, in order to be punished, as in Acts 9:2 and which the Ethiopic version adds here.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the notes on Acts 9:5, etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 26:12. Whereupon as I went to Damascus — See the whole account of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus explained at large, in Clarke's notes on "Acts 9:2", &c.