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Mga Gawa 9:14
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
here: Acts 9:2, Acts 9:3
call: Acts 9:21, Acts 7:59,*Gr: Acts 22:16, Romans 10:12-14, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Timothy 2:22
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 16:8 - call Psalms 105:1 - call Matthew 2:22 - he was Matthew 4:23 - teaching Mark 13:9 - take Acts 9:16 - for Acts 9:17 - Brother Acts 22:4 - I persecuted Acts 22:5 - also Acts 26:10 - having Galatians 1:13 - how 2 Timothy 2:19 - Let Revelation 2:13 - my name
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And here he hath authority from the chief priests,.... His fury and madness against the saints did not stop at Jerusalem, but he had received a commission from the sanhedrim to go to Damascus, where he now was:
to bind all that call on thy name; to take up all such persons and put them in bonds, and carry them bound to Jerusalem, whom he should find either praying to Christ, as God, as the first Christians used to do, and which is no inconsiderable proof of the deity of Christ; or professing the name of Christ, or were called by it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have heard by many ... - This was in the vision, Acts 9:10. The passage of such a train of thoughts through the mind was perfectly natural at the command to go and search out Saul. There would instantly occur all that had been heard of his fury in persecution; and the expression here may indicate the state of a mind amazed that such a one should need his counsel, and afraid, perhaps, of entrusting himself to one thus bent on persecution. All this evidently passed in the dream or vision of Ananias, and perhaps cannot be considered as any deliberate unwillingness to go to him. It is clear, however, that such thoughts should have been banished, and that he should have gone at once to the praying Saul. When Christ commands, we should suffer no suggestion of our own thoughts, and no apprehension of our own danger, to interfere.
By many - Probably many who had fled from persecution, and had taken refuge in Damascus. It is also evident Acts 9:14 that Ananias had been apprised, perhaps by letters from the Christians at Jerusalem, of the purpose which Saul had in view in now going to Damascus.
To thy saints - Christians; called saints ἅγιοι hagioi because they are holy, or consecrated to God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 9:14. And here he hath authority, c.] Ananias had undoubtedly heard of Saul's coming, and the commission he had received from the chief priests and he was about to urge this as a reason why he should have no connection with so dangerous a man.