Acts 26:17

I will deliver you from your own people and from the Goyim to whom I am sending you, + 26:17 Jer 1:8,19

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 on your feet. For this tachlis, then, I appeared to you, to give you s'michah as a mesharet, an eved, and an eidus (witness), both of what things you have seen and the things which I will reveal to you. + 26:16 Ezek 2:1; Dan 10:11

18To open their eyes, to turn them from choshech to ohr and from the samchut of HaSatan to Hashem, that they receive selichat avon and nachalah among the ones having been set apart in kedushah by emunah in me. + 26:18 Isa 35:5; Ps 18:28; Isa 42:7,16

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Cross References

Psalms 34:19Hashem is near unto them whose lev is broken; 1 and saveth such whose ruach is contrite. 1

Jeremiah 1:8Be not afraid of them; 1 for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Hashem.

Acts 9:15But Moshiach Adoneinu said to him, Go, for this one is a keli nivchar (chosen vessel) of mine to carry Shmi before both Goyim and melachim (kings) and the Bnei Yisroel.

Acts 9:29And Rav Sha'ul was speaking and debating keneged (against) the Greek-speaking Yehudim; but they were attempting to kill him.

Acts 14:5And when an attempt came by both the Goyim and the Yehudim with their rashim (heads, leaders) to mistreat and to stone them,

Acts 16:39So the magistrates came, and entreated Rav Sha'ul and Sila, and brought them out, asking 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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