Hechos 26:11

11 Muchas veces anduve de sinagoga en sinagoga castigándolos para obligarlos a blasfemar. Mi obsesión contra ellos me llevaba al extremo de perseguirlos incluso en ciudades del extranjero.

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 »Pues bien, yo mismo estaba convencido de que debía hacer todo lo posible por combatir el nombre de Jesús de Nazaret.

10 Eso es precisamente lo que hice en Jerusalén. Con la autoridad de los jefes de los sacerdotes metí en la cárcel a muchos de los santos, y cuando los mataban, yo manifestaba mi aprobación.

11 Muchas veces anduve de sinagoga en sinagoga castigándolos para obligarlos a blasfemar. Mi obsesión contra ellos me llevaba al extremo de perseguirlos incluso en ciudades del extranjero.

12 »En uno de esos viajes iba yo hacia Damasco con la autoridad y la comisión de los jefes de los sacerdotes.

13 A eso del mediodía, oh rey, mientras iba por el camino, vi una luz del cielo, más refulgente que el sol, que con su resplandor nos envolvió a mí y a mis acompañantes.