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Acts 9:26-31

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bulletReading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bulletThe Blue Letter Bible
bulletThe World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition & sermons.
bulletHistorical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bulletFrom the Geneva Notes.
bullet"In ancient times no man was rashly or lightly received into the members and the sheep of the Church, much less to be a pastor."
bulletFrom Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"Christ's witnesses cannot be slain till they have finished their testimony. The persecutions were stayed."
bulletFrom Wesley's Notes.
bullet"He who has been an enemy to the truth ought not to be trusted till he gives proof that he is changed."
bulletFrom the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"But this rest was owing not so much to the conversion of Saul, as probably to the Jews being engrossed with the emperor Caligula's attempt to have his own image set up in the temple of Jerusalem [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 18.8.1, &c.]."
bulletFrom The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
bullet"Three years had passed since he left the city, a proud, talented young Pharisee, with brilliant worldly prospects, the honored agent of the Sanhedrim, commissioned to stamp out Christianity at Damascus. He now returns a disciple of him whom he sought to destroy, his bright worldly prospects all forfeited, an outcast from his own nation, persecuted and hated. Why this change? No explanation is possible, save that given in this history and by himself."
bulletContemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet "The Meaning of Vocation," A.J. Conyers, (other resources at) "Vocation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
bullet"'Vocation' is distorted by two disastrous misunderstandings: a secularized idea of 'career' and a monastic concept of the religious life."
bullet "The Conversion of Saul (Acts 9:1-31)," by Robert Deffinbaugh at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
bullet"Saul seems to have been the instigator of the persecution of the church, which began at the death of Stephen in Jerusalem and worked outward from there. With the conversion of Saul, persecution of the church did not stop, for now some of the Hellenistic Jews were opposing his preaching (and no doubt, the church at large as well). It was only with the exit of Saul from the Holy Land, back to his native land (Tarsus), that peace once again returned."
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles (XV) (Acts 9:1-30)," Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read Heimerdinger, Filologia Neotestamentaria, 2003.
bulletArticles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
bulletMurray, George W., "Paul's Corporate Evangelism in the Book of Acts," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1998.
bulletReviews:
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bulletCrossword on Acts 9, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
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bulletFine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
bullet The Conversion of Paul
bulletMovies Listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
bulletConversion
bulletCall
bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of Acts