Acts 26:17

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

English Majority Text (NT)

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 on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will appear to you,

18to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’ 1 Paul's Post-Conversion Life

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Cross References

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Acts 9:29and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and he was speaking and disputing with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were attempting to kill him.

Acts 14:5And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

Acts 16:39And coming, they appealed to them, and bringing them out, they asked 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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