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King James Bible - Acts 9:29

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:29

y hablaba confiadamente en el Nombre del Se�or; y disputaba con los griegos; pero ellos procuraban matarle.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 9:29

Verse 29. Disputed against the Grecians] That is, the Hellenistic Jews, viz. those who lived in Grecian cities, spoke the Greek language, and used the Septuagint version for their scriptures. And thus the Syriac version has interpreted this place. See the note on chap. vi. 1, where this subject is largely explained.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 29. And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus , etc.] He spoke the Gospel of Christ boldly, as it ought to be spoken; he spoke it openly, publicly, freely, and faithfully, not fearing the faces or revilings of any: the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions add, �to the Gentiles�; but this is not in any of the Greek copies: and disputed against the Grecians; or Hellenists, that is, the Hellenistical Jews; by whom are meant, not Greeks proselyted to the Jewish religion, but Jews who had been born and brought up in Greece, or at least had learned the Greek language, and used the Greek Bible; and so the Syriac version renders it, �he disputed with the Jews that knew Greek�; perhaps the same persons, of the synagogue of the Libertines, Alexandrians, Cyrenians, and of Cilicia and Asia, who disputed with Stephen, with whom he had before joined, ( Acts 6:9,10) but they went about to slay him ; he being an over match for them; and they not being able to resist him, but being confuted, and confounded, and put to silence, they were filled with indignation; and since they could not conquer him by arguments, they were for slaying him with the sword.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 23-31 - When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was and is a proo of the truth of Christianity, yet it could not, of itself, convert on soul at enmity with the truth; for nothing can produce true faith, but that power which new-creates the heart. Believers are apt to be to suspicious of those against whom they have prejudices. The world i full of deceit, and it is necessary to be cautious, but we mus exercise charity, 1Co 13:5. The Lord will clear up the characters of true believers; and he will bring them to his people, and often give them opportunities of bearing testimony to his truth, before those wh once witnessed their hatred to it. Christ now appeared to Saul, an ordered him to go quickly out of Jerusalem, for he must be sent to the Gentiles: see ch. 22:21. Christ's witnesses cannot be slain till the have finished their testimony. The persecutions were stayed. The professors of the gospel walked uprightly, and enjoyed much comfor from the Holy Ghost, in the hope and peace of the gospel, and other were won over to them. They lived upon the comfort of the Holy Ghost not only in the days of trouble and affliction, but in days of rest an prosperity. Those are most likely to walk cheerfully, who wal circumspectly.

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Greek Textus Receptus

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

29. Grecians. Rev., correctly, Grecian Jews. See on ch. vi. 1.

Went about (epeceiroun). Better, attempted: lit., took in hand.

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Robertson's NT Word Studies

9:29 {Preaching boldly} (parresiazomenos). For a while. Evidently Saul did not extend his preaching outside of Jerusalem (#Ga 1:22) and in the city preached mainly in the synagogues of the Hellenists (pros tous hellenistas) as Stephen had done (#Ac 8:9). As a Cilician Jew he knew how to speak to the Hellenists. {Disputed} (sunezetei). Imperfect active of sunzetew, the very verb used in #6:9 of the disputes with Stephen in these very synagogues in one of which (Cilicia) Saul had probably joined issue with Stephen to his own discomfort. It was intolerable to these Hellenistic Jews now to hear Saul taking the place of Stephen and using the very arguments that Stephen had employed. {But they went about to kill him} (hoi de epeceiroun anelein auton). Demonstrative hoi with de and the conative imperfect of epiceirew, to put the hand to, to try, an old verb used in the N.T. only three times (#Lu 1:1; Ac 9:29; 19:3). They offer to Saul the same conclusive answer that he gave to Stephen, death. Paul tells how the Lord Jesus appeared to him at this juncture in a vision in the temple (#Ac 22:17-21) with the distinct command to leave Jerusalem and how Paul protested that he was willing to meet the fate of Stephen in whose death he had a shameful part. That is to Saul's credit, but the Lord did not want Saul to be put to death yet. His crown of martyrdom will come later.