Acts 22:18 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 22:18

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

3 voices

Bede

Retractions on Acts (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 …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἰδεῖν	idein	seeing	G1492 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
λέγοντά	legonta	saying	G3004 →
μοι·	moi	to me;	G3165 →
σπεῦσον	speuson	do make haste	G4692 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἔξελθε	exelthe	do go away	G1831 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
τάχει	tachei	speed	G5034 →
ἐξ	ex	out of	G1537 →
Ἰερουσαλήμ,	Ierousalēm	Jerusalem,	G2419 →
διότι	dioti	because	G1360 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
παραδέξονταί	paradexontai	they will receive	G3858 →
σου	sou	your	G4771 →
μαρτυρίαν	marturian	testimony	G3141 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
ἐμοῦ.	emou	Me.	G1473 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
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.
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.
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.