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Acts 22:18

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and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee testimony concerning me.

KJV

And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

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This verse in Acts 22

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Retractions on Acts · Written before 735.

But it happened that when I was returning to Jerusalem and praying in the temple, I fell into a trance, and saw him. For the trance of the mind, some Codices have a mental ecstasy, others a fear, others an alienation. For what is called …

This site's exposition

I fell into a trance

on Acts 22:17-18

Praying at the temple, Paul fell into a trance and saw the Lord, who told him to leave Jerusalem quickly. The vision came in the temple, so his Gentile calling came from the God of Israel in Israel’s own house.

This site's exposition

Leave Jerusalem quickly

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown place the vision on the visit of Acts 9:26-29 and note that Scripture records this conversation nowhere else. John Chrysostom sees the warning proved true in the scene Paul now stands in. Jerusalem still refused his testimony.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 48 · Written before 407.

proposed

"And when I was come again to Jerusalem," etc. How was it, that being a Jew, and there brought up and taught, he did not stay there? Nor did he abide there, unless he had a mind to furnish numberless occasions against him: everywhere just like an exile, fleeing about from place to place. "While I prayed in the temple," he says, "it came to pass that I was in a trance." To show that it was not simply a phantom of the imagination, therefore "while he prayed" the Lord stood by him. And he shows that it was not from fear of their dangers that he fled, but because they would "not receive" his "testimony." But why said he "They know I imprisoned?" Not to gainsay Christ, but because he wished to learn this which was so contrary to all reasonable expectation. Christ, however, did not teach him this, but only bade him depart, and he obeys: so obedient is he.

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 55 · Written before 407.

proposed

Then wherefore did the Providence of God order that he should go thither, and yet the Lord had said, "Get thee out quickly from Jerusalem?" That both their wickedness might be shown and Christ's prophecy made good, that they would not endure to hear him: and so that all might learn that he was ready to suffer all things, and that the event might be for the consolation of those in Judea: for there also the brethren were suffering many grievous evils.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Our eye must be upon Christ when we are receiving the law from his mouth; and we must not only hear him speak, but see him speaking to us. Before Christ gave him a commission to go to the Gentiles, he told him it was to no purpose for him to think of doing any good at Jerusalem; so that they must not blame him, but themselves, if he be sent to the Gentiles.
And I saw him saying unto me,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

And saw him - Evidently, the Lord Jesus, Act 22:14. He had received his commission from him, and he now received a distinct command to go to the Gentiles. For they will not receive - The inhabitants of Jerusalem, probably including both Jews and Christians. The Jews would not listen to him because he had become, in their view, an apostate, and they would hate and persecute him.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

it came to pass, &c.--This thrilling dialogue between the glorified Redeemer and his chosen vessel is nowhere else related. when I was come again to Jerusalem--on the occasion mentioned in Ac 9:26-29. while I prayed in the temple--He thus calls their attention to the fact that after his conversion he kept up his connection with the temple as before.

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The words behind it

19 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.8 worksJohn 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”5 worksActs 9:29He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.4 worksActs 23:11The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”4 worksJohn 3:11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.4 worksLuke 21:21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.3 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 3:6–7not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.3 worksMatthew 10:14And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.3 works1 Corinthians 1:6because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.3 worksMatthew 10:23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.2 worksActs 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,2 worksActs 22:14Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.2 works1 Corinthians 2:1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.2 worksActs 18:9One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.0 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 10:14

    And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

    it leads to

    • Luke 10:10–11

      But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

    • Acts 18:6

      But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to…

    • Nehemiah 5:13

      I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be…

    • Acts 13:51

      So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

    • Mark 6:11

      If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”

  • Through

    Matthew 10:23

    When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 16:28

      Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

    • John 11:53–54

      So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

  • Through

    Acts 9:29

    He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.

    it leads to

    • Acts 6:1

      In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

Where this verse is studied

About Acts

The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
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This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on Acts; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Retractions on Acts; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 55; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 48; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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