Kisah Para Rasul 9:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sementara itu berkobar-kobar hati Saulus untuk mengancam dan membunuh murid-murid Tuhan. Ia menghadap Imam Besar,

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sementara itu berkobar-kobar hati Saulus untuk mengancam dan membunuh murid-murid Tuhan. Ia menghadap Imam Besar,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Saul yang sedang menyemburkan ugut dan bunuhannya ke atas murid-murid Tuhan itu, sudah pergi kepada Imam Besar,

Contextual Overview

¹ And Saul yet breathyng out threatnings and slaughter agaynst the disciples of ye Lord, went vnto ye hie priest, ² And desired of him letters to carrye to Damascus, to the synagogues: that yf he founde any of this waye, whether they were men or women, he myght bryng them bounde vnto Hierusalem. ³ And when he iourneyed, it came to passe, that as he was come nye to Damascus, sodenly there shyned rounde about hym a lyght from heauen: ⁴ And he fell to the earth, and hearde a voyce saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? ⁵ And he sayde: Who art thou Lorde? And the Lorde said: I am Iesus who thou persecutest, It is harde for thee to kicke agaynst the prickes. ⁶ And he both tremblyng and astonyed, sayde: Lord, what wylt thou haue me to do? And the Lorde sayde vnto hym: Aryse, and go into the citie, and it shalbe tolde thee what thou must do. ⁷ The men also which iourneyed with him, stoode amased, hearing a voyce, but seyng no man. ⁸ And Saul arose from the earth, and when he opened his eyes, he sawe no man: But they ledde him by the hande, and brought hym into Damascus. ⁹ And he was three dayes without syght, and neither dyd eate nor drynke.

Bible Verse Review
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Cir am 4039, ad 35

Saul: Acts 9:11-13, Acts 9:19-21, Acts 7:58, Acts 8:3, Acts 22:3, Acts 22:4, Acts 26:9-11, 1 Corinthians 15:9, Galatians 1:13, Philippians 3:6, 1 Timothy 1:13

breathing: Psalms 27:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:27 - a wolf Joshua 6:6 - Take up the ark Psalms 83:4 - General Proverbs 16:7 - he Isaiah 11:4 - with the breath Isaiah 59:15 - he that Isaiah 65:25 - wolf Matthew 23:34 - ye Mark 13:9 - take Luke 2:34 - and rising Luke 11:49 - and some Luke 15:5 - when John 16:2 - the time Acts 9:13 - how Acts 9:21 - destroyed Acts 13:1 - and Saul Acts 22:5 - also Acts 22:19 - know Acts 26:12 - as 1 Thessalonians 2:14 - even Titus 3:3 - disobedient Hebrews 10:32 - ye endured 1 Peter 2:23 - threatened

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.

Genesis 8:17
And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.

Genesis 9:3
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.

Genesis 9:4
But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Genesis 9:19
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.

Genesis 10:32
And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.

Psalms 112:1
Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter,.... The historian having given an account of the dispersion of all the preachers of the Gospel at Jerusalem, excepting the apostles, and of their success in other parts, especially of Philip's, returns to the history of Saul; who, not satisfied with the murder of Stephen, and with the havoc he made of the church at Jerusalem, haling them out of their houses to prison, continued not only to threaten them with confiscation of goods and imprisonment, but with death itself. The phrase here used is an Hebraism; so in Psalms 27:12 יפח חמס, "one that breathes out violence", or cruelty; and this shows the inward disposition of his mind, the rage, wrath, malice, envy, and blood thirstiness he was full of; and is observed to illustrate the riches of divine grace in his conversion. And wonderful it is, that that same mouth which breathed out destruction and death to the followers of Christ, should afterwards publish and proclaim the Gospel of the grace of God; that he whose mouth was full of cursing and bitterness, should hereafter, and so very quickly, come forth in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ. And this rage of his, who now ravened as a wolf, as was foretold of Benjamin, of which tribe he was, was against the lambs of Christ, and the sheep of his fold:

against the disciples of the Lord; not against wicked men, murderers, and thieves, and other evildoers, but against the harmless and innocent followers of Jesus, and which was an aggravation of his cruelty: and being thus heated, and full of wrath,

he went unto the high priest; Annas or Caiaphas, who, notwithstanding the Jews were under the Roman government, had great authority to punish persons with stripes and death itself, who acted contrary to their law.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Saul - See the notes on Acts 7:58; Acts 8:3. He had been engaged be fore in persecuting the Christians, but he now sought opportunity to gratify his insatiable desire on a larger scale.

Yet breathing out - Not satisfied with what he had done, Acts 8:3. The word breathing out is expressive often of any deep, agitating emotion, as we then breathe rapidly and violently. It is thus expressive of violent anger. The emotion is absorbing, agitating, exhausting, and demands a more rapid circulation of blood to supply the exhausted vitality; and this demands an increased supply of oxygen, or vital air, which leads to the increased action of the lungs. The word is often used in this sense in the Classics (Schleusner). It is a favorite expression with Homer. Euripides has the same expression: “Breathing out fire and slaughter.” So Theocritus: “They came unto the assembly breathing mutual slaughter” (Idyll. 22:82).

Threatening - Denunciation; threatening them with every breath the action of a man violently enraged, and who was bent on vengeance. It denotes also “intense activity and energy in persecution.”

Slaughter - Murder. Intensely desiring to put to death as many Christians as possible. He rejoiced in their death, and joined in condemning them, Acts 26:10-11. From this latter place it seems that he had been concerned in putting many of them to death.

The disciples of the Lord - Against Christians.

Went unto the high priest - See the notes on Matthew 2:4. The letters were written and signed in the name and by the authority of the Sanhedrin, or written and signed in the name and by the authority of the Sanhedrin, or Great Council of the nation. The high priest did it as president of that council. See Acts 9:14, and Acts 22:5. The high priest at that time was Theophilus, son of Ananus, who had been appointed at the feast of Pentecost, 37 a.d., by Vitellius, the Roman governor. His brother Jonathan had been removed from that office the same year (Kuinoel).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IX.

Saul, bent on the destruction of the Christians, obtains letters

from the high priest, authorizing him to seize those whom he

should find at Damascus, and bring them bound to Jerusalem,

1, 2.

On his way to Damascus, he has a Divine vision, is convinced of

his sin and folly, is struck blind, and remains three days

without sight, and neither eats nor drinks, 3-9.

Ananias, a disciple, is commanded in a vision to go and speak to

Saul, and restore his sight, 10-16.

Ananias goes and lays his hands on him, and he receives his

sight, and is baptized, 17-19.

Saul, having spent a few days with the Christians at Damascus,

goes to the synagogues, proclaims Christ, and confounds the

Jews, 20-22.

The Jews lay wait to kill him, but the disciples let him down

over the walls of the city in a basket, by night, and he

escapes to Jerusalem, 23-25.

Having wished to associate with the disciples there, they avoid

him; but Barnabas takes and brings him to the apostles, and

declares his conversion, 26, 27.

He continues in Jerusalem preaching Christ, and arguing with the

Hellenistic Jews, who endeavour to slay him; but the disciples

take him to Caesarea, and send him thence to his own city

Tarsus, 28-30.

About this time, the Churches, being freed from persecution, are

edified and multiplied, 31.

Peter heals Eneas at Lydda, who had been afflicted with the

palsy eight years: in consequence of which miracle, all the

people of Lydda and Saron are converted, 32-35.

Account of the sickness and death of a Christian woman named

Tabitha, who dwelt at Joppa; and her miraculous restoration to

life by the ministry of Peter, 36-41.

Gracious effects produced among the inhabitants of Lydda by this

miracle, 42, 43.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX.

Verse Acts 9:1. Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter — The original text is very emphatic, ετι εμπνεων απειλης και φονου, and points out how determinate Saul was to pursue and accomplish his fell purpose of totally destroying the infant Church of Christ. The mode of speech introduced above is very frequent in the Greek writers, who often express any vehement and hostile affection of the mind by the verb πνεειν, to breathe, to pant; so Theocritus, Idyll. xxii. ver. 82:

Ες μεσσον συναγον, φονον αλλαλοισι πνεοντες.

They came into the assembly, breathing mutual slaughter. Euripides has the same form, πυρ πνεουσα και φονον, breathing out fire, and slaughter, Iphig. in Taur.

And Aristophanes more fully, referring to all the preparations for war:-

Αλλα πνεοντας δορυ και λογχας και λευκολοφους τρυφαλειας,

Και πηληκας, και κνημιδας, και θυμους ἑπταβοειους.

They breathed spears, and pikes, and helmets, and

crests, and greaves, and the fury of redoubted heroes.

The figure is a favourite one with Homer: hence μενεα πνειοντες αβαντες, the Abantes breathing strength.-Il. ii. 536. And how frequently he speaks of his fierce countrymen as, μενεα πνειοντες αχαιοι, the Greeks breathing strength, see Il. iii. 8; xi. 508; xxiv. 364, which phrase an old Scholiast interprets, being filled with strength and fury. St. Luke, who was master of the Greek tongue, chose such terms as best expressed a heart desperately and incessantly bent on accomplishing the destruction of the objects of its resentment. Such at this time was the heart of Saul of Tarsus; and it had already given full proof of its malignity, not only in the martyrdom of Stephen, but also in making havoc of the Church, and in forcibly entering every house, and dragging men and women, whom he suspected of Christianity, and committing them to prison. See Acts 8:3.

Went unto the high priest — As the high priest was chief in all matters of an ecclesiastical nature, and the present business was pretendedly religious, he was the proper person to apply to for letters by which this virulent persecutor might be accredited. The letters must necessarily be granted in the name of the whole Sanhedrin, of which Gamaliel, Saul's master, was at that time the head; but the high priest was the proper organ through whom this business might be negotiated.