Acts 9:14-24

14 and here he ¹has authority from the chief priests to bind all who ²call on Your name."

15 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for ³he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before ⁴the Gentiles and ⁵kings and the sons of Israel;

16 for ⁶I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

17 So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after ⁷laying his hands on him said, "⁸Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be ⁹filled with the Holy Spirit."

18 And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;

and he took food and was strengthened.

Saul Begins to Preach Christ

19 Now ¹⁰ for several days he was with ¹¹ the disciples who were at Damascus,

20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus ¹²in the synagogues, saying, "He is ¹³the Son of God."

21 All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem ¹⁴destroyed those who ¹⁵called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

22 But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

23 When ¹⁶many days had elapsed, ¹⁷the Jews plotted together to do away with him,

24 but ¹⁸their plot became known to Saul. ¹⁹They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

Cross References

• 1. Acts 9:2, 21
• 2. Acts 7:59
• 3. Acts 13:2; Romans 1:1; Romans 9:23; Galatians 1:15; Ephesians 3:7
• 4. Acts 22:21; Acts 26:17; Romans 1:5; Romans 11:13; Romans 15:16; Galatians 1:16; Galatians 2:7f; Ephesians 3:1, 8; 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 4:17
• 5. Acts 25:22; Acts 26:1, 32; 2 Timothy 4:17
• 6. Acts 20:23; Acts 21:4, 11, 13; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; 1 Thessalonians 3:3
• 7. Mark 5:23; Acts 6:6; Acts 9:12
• 8. Acts 22:13
• 9. Acts 2:4
• 10. Acts 13:5, 14; Acts 14:1; Acts 16:13; Acts 17:2, 10; Acts 18:4, 19; Acts 19:8
• 11. Matthew 4:3; Acts 9:22; Acts 13:33
• 12. Acts 8:3; Acts 9:13; Galatians 1:13, 23
• 13. Acts 9:14
• 14. Galatians 1:17, 18
• 15. 1 Thessalonians 2:16
• 16. Acts 20:3, 19; Acts 23:12, 30; Acts 25:3
• 17. 2 Corinthians 11:32
• 18. Acts 26:20
• 19. Acts 9:26,38; Acts 11:26

Footnotes

• [a] Or "vessel"
• [b] Lit "that"
• [c] I.e. Messiah