Acts 22:21

21 And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the nations afar off.

Acts 22:21 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 22:21

And he said unto me, depart
At once from Jerusalem, and out of the land of Judea:

for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles;
to the nations afar off, even as far as Illyricum, Pannonia, or Hungary, where the apostle went and preached, ( Romans 15:19 ) and so by a divine mission and commission he became the apostle of the Gentiles, and preached the Gospel among them with great success, to the conversion of many thousands of them, and to the planting of many churches in the midst of them.

Acts 22:21 In-Context

19 And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;

20 and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.

21 And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the nations afar off.

22 And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.

23 And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air,