Acts 26:17

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

In Context

16But arise, and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness of the things which you have seen, and of those in which I will appear to you,

18in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

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Cross References

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him: Go; for he is a vessel chosen by me to bear my name before nations and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Acts 9:29he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they undertook to kill him.

Acts 14:5But when there was a violent purpose on the part of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to outrage and to stone them,

Acts 16:39and they came, and entreated them, and led them out, and requested them to depart from the city.

Matthew Henry on Acts 26:13-24

Paul's Fifth Defence. 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. 14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus… Read the whole commentary →

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