Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.
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In The King James Version
In Context
17Deliuering thee from this people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee,
19Wherefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient vnto the heauenly vision,
Cross References
Psalms 32:1A Psalme of David to give instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered.
Psalms 146:8The Lord giueth sight to the blinde: the Lord rayseth vp the crooked: the Lord loueth the righteous.
Isaiah 29:18And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
Isaiah 35:5Then shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened, and the eares of the deafe be opened.
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah 49:6And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.
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 →