Hechos 26:11

11 Y muchas veces, castigándolos por todas las sinagogas, los forcé a blasfemar; y enfurecido sobremanera contra ellos, los perseguí hasta en las ciudades extranjeras

Hechos 26:11 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 26:11

And I punished them oft in every synagogue
In Jerusalem, where there were many; (See Gill on Acts 24:12); by beating and scourging them there, as the manner was; see ( Matthew 10:17 ) .

and compelled them to blaspheme;
the Lord Jesus Christ, both to deny him to be the Messiah, and to call him accursed; as the Jews and Heathens obliged some professors of Christianity to do, who were only nominal ones, and had not grace and strength to stand against their threatenings, and to endure their persecutions:

and being exceeding mad against them;
full of malice, envy, and hatred:

I persecuted them even to strange cities;
particularly Damascus; and of his journey thither, he gives an account in the following verse; or through the violence of his persecution he obliged them to fly to strange cities, where they were foreigners and strangers; though he himself might not follow them there, since we do not read of his going anywhere but to Damascus; whereas they that were scattered by the persecution, in which he was concerned, travelled as far as Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch, ( Acts 9:19 ) . The phrase may be rendered, "even to cities without"; i.e. without the land of Israel: frequent mention is made in Jewish writings of such and such cities being (Ural huwx) , "without the land".

Hechos 26:11 In-Context

9 Yo ciertamente había pensado hacer muchas cosas contrarias contra el nombre de Jesús el Nazareno

10 lo cual también hice en Jerusalén, y yo encerré en cárceles a muchos de los santos, recibida potestad de los príncipes de los sacerdotes; y cuando los mataron, yo di mi voto

11 Y muchas veces, castigándolos por todas las sinagogas, los forcé a blasfemar; y enfurecido sobremanera contra ellos, los perseguí hasta en las ciudades extranjeras

12 En lo cual ocupado, yendo a Damasco con potestad y comisión de los príncipes de los sacerdotes

13 en mitad del día, oh rey, vi en el camino una luz del cielo, que sobrepujaba al resplandor del sol, la cual me rodeó y a los que iban conmigo