Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 22:17-21
CRITICAL REMARKSActs 22:17. Begins the third portion of the defence. When I was come again to Jerusalem.—This visit to the Metropolis, which occurred at least three years after his conversion (Acts 9:26), and lasted fifteen days (Galatians 1:18), is connected with the story of his conversion (overleaping all that happened in the interval), to show why he turned to the Gentiles with his gospel, rather than to the Jews. The trance into which he fell, while praying in the temple, resembles Peter’s... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 22:6-16
CRITICAL REMARKSActs 22:6 begins the second part of the defence (Acts 22:6-16). Was come nigh should be was drawing near. The narration is the same as in Acts 9:3-17 and Acts 26:13-18, with a few points of difference. One of these is the note of time—about noon—“through which the miracle is more realistically expressed, and the matter of fact placed beyond suspicion of being an evening delusion” (Holtzmann). Another is the adjective great (ἱκανόν) appended to the noun light φῶς, which equally... read more