Acts 26:16
but rise, and stand on your feet, for this I appeared to you, to appoint you an officer and a witness both of the things you saw, and of the things [in which] I will appear to you,
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In The King James Version
In Context
15And I said, Who are You, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute;
17delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom I now send you,
Cross References
Ezekiel 2:1His appearance [was] of the likeness of the glory of YHWH, and I see, and fall on my face, and I hear a voice speaking, and He says to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I speak with you.”
Acts 1:17because he was numbered among us, and received the share in this ministry.
Acts 6:4and we to prayer, and to the ministry of the word, will give ourselves continually.”
Acts 9:15And the LORD said to him, “Go, because this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to carry My Name before nations and kings—also the sons of Israel;
Acts 18:9And the LORD said through a vision in the night to Paul, “Do not be afraid, but be speaking and you may not be silent;
Acts 21:19and having greeted them, he was expounding, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministry,
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 →