Acts 9 Footnotes
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9:17-18 The ordering of events in Saul’s conversion may have been altered from the standard pattern so that baptism was the final event (indicating full initiation into the Christian faith).
9:20 Paul’s missionary strategy—from start to finish (28:17)—was to begin in Jewish synagogues to present Jesus as “the Son of God” (used here as a messianic title for God’s unique representative) to Jews.
9:32 The gospel may have reached Lydda just after Pentecost (2:9-11), following the persecution that scattered believers throughout Judea (8:1), or through Philip’s ministry (8:40).
9:43 Tanners were often considered impure because of their contact with dead animals. Either Jewish law had became more relaxed with regard to this trade, or Peter was enjoying freedom from the Jewish law based on his liberty in Christ (10:6,32).