Acts 26:18

To 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

In Context

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

19O Agrippa HaMelech, I was not disobedient to the chazon from Shomayim. + 26:19 Isa 50:5

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Cross References

Psalms 32:1(Of Dovid. A maskil) 1 whose chata'ah (sin) is covered. 1

Psalms 146:8Hashem openeth the eyes of the ivrim: 1 Hashem raiseth them that are bowed down: 1 Hashem loveth the tzaddikim: 1

Isaiah 29:18And in that day shall the chereshim (deaf persons) 1 hear the devarim of the sefer, 1 and the eynayim of the ivrim 1 shall see out of obscurity, and out of choshech. 1

Isaiah 35:5Then the eyes of the ivvrim (blind people) shall be opened, 1 and the ears of the chereshim (deaf ones) shall be unstopped. 1

Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the ivrim (blind) 1 by a derech that they knew not; 1 I will lead them in paths 1 that they have not known; 1 I will make choshech into ohr before them, 1 and crooked things straight. 1 These things will I do unto them, 1 and not forsake them. 1

Isaiah 49:6And He said: 1 It is too small a thing that Thou shouldest be Eved to Me 1 to raise up the Shivtei Ya'akov, 1 and to bring back the Netzurei Yisroel (Preserved of Israel, the She'erit); 1 I will also give Thee for Ohr Goyim, 1 that Thou mayest be My Yeshu'ah (Salvation) unto the ketzeh ha'aretz. 1

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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