Acts 26:17

delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you:

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you,

18to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

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Cross References

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel;

Acts 9:29He kept on speaking and debating with the Hellenists, so they started trying to kill him.

Acts 14:5But when a plot was hatched by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,

Acts 16:39and they came and appealed to them, and leading them out they asked them to leave 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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