Notes on Acts

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Acts

Notes on Chapter 22

Acts 22:11| Men
| See note 21 in ch. 7.

Acts 22:12b| defense| Acts 24:10;| 25:8
| Paul faced his opponents in a way different from Christ’s way. For the accomplishing of His redemption, Christ was like a lamb brought to the slaughter; and like a sheep dumb before its shearer, He did not open His mouth when judged by men (Isa. 53:7; Matt. 26:62-63; 27:12, 14). But as a faithful and bold apostle sent by the Lord, Paul needed to make a defense and exercise his wisdom to save his life from his persecutors that he might fulfill the course of his ministry. Although he was willing and ready to sacrifice his life for the Lord (20:24; note 121 in ch. 21; 21:13), he still endeavored to live longer that he might carry out the Lord’s ministry as much as possible. See notes 252 in this chapter and 31 and 63 in ch. 23.

Acts 22:21| dialect
| See note 401 in ch. 21.

Acts 22:31| a
| Lit., a man, a Jew.

Acts 22:3a| Jew| Acts 21:39

Acts 22:3b| Gamaliel| Acts 5:34

Acts 22:3c| strictness| Acts 26:5

Acts 22:3d| zealous| Acts 21:20

Acts 22:3e| for| John 16:2

Acts 22:4a| persecuted| Phil. 3:6;| 1|Tim. 1:13

Acts 22:41| Way
| See note 21 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:4b| prisons| Acts 22:19;| 8:3;| 26:10

Acts 22:5a| high| Acts 4:6

Acts 22:51| assembly
| Referring to the presbytery, the eldership (of the Sanhedrin). Hence, the Sanhedrin. See note 226 in Matt. 5.

Acts 22:5b| letters| Acts 9:2;| 28:21

Acts 22:5c| Damascus| Acts 9:3;| 26:12

Acts 22:6a| drew| vv. 6-11: Acts 9:3-8;| 26:12-18

Acts 22:71| Me
| See note 41 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:81| Lord
| See note 51 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:8a| Nazarene| Acts 26:9;| 3:6

Acts 22:91| hear
| I.e., understand, as in Mark 4:33; 1|Cor. 14:2. They heard the voice but did not understand it, just as they beheld the light but saw no one (9:7).

Acts 22:10a| What| Acts 16:30

Acts 22:101| will
| See note 61 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:111| not
| See note 81 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:121a| Ananias| Acts 9:12, 15
| See note 111 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:12b| well| Acts 10:22

Acts 22:131a| receive| Acts 9:12, 17, 18
| See note 121 in ch. 9.

Acts 22:14a| God| Acts 5:30;| 24:14

Acts 22:14b| appointed| Acts 9:15;| 26:16

Acts 22:14c| will| Rom. 12:2;| Eph. 1:9;| 5:17;| Col. 1:9

Acts 22:14d| righteous| Acts 3:14

Acts 22:15a| witness| Acts 1:8;| 22:20

Acts 22:15b| seen| Acts 4:20

Acts 22:161| be
| See notes 361 in ch. 8 and 161 in Mark 16.

Acts 22:16a| baptized| Acts 9:18

Acts 22:162b| calling| Rom. 10:13
| See note 211 in ch. 2. Calling on the Lord’s name here was a means for Paul to wash away his sins committed in arresting so many of the believers who called on the Lord’s name. All the believers knew that he had considered calling on the Lord’s name a sign of those whom he should arrest (9:14, 21). Now he had turned to the Lord. In order for Paul to wash away, before God and before all the believers, the sins that he had committed in persecuting and arresting the Lord’s callers, he was charged by Ananias to call on the name that he had formerly abhorred. He had to do this—an act contrary to his former practice—at his baptism, in which he made a public confession of the Lord whom he had persecuted.