Acts 26:17

since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send 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

16but get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I will yet appear to you,

18to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God’s people, by faith in me.’

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Cross References

Psalms 34:19Many misfortunes befall the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

Acts 9:29talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.

Acts 14:5and, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leaders, to resort to violence and to stone them,

Acts 16:39and went to the prison, and did their best to conciliate them. Then they took them out, and begged 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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