Actes 9:12

12 Et dans une vision il a vu un homme, nommé Ananias, qui est entré, et qui lui a imposé les mains, afin qu'il recouvre la vue.

Actes 9:12 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 9:12

And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias
Some read this verse in a parenthesis, and take them to be the words of Luke the historian; but it is rather a continuation of the words of Christ, telling Ananias, for his greater encouragement to go to Saul, that he had seen him in a vision, and had knowledge both of his person, and of his name, and of what he was to do to him; for in the vision or dream, he had been represented to him as

coming in;
to the house, and into the room where he was:

and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight;
without which he had been three days, and which he did receive upon Ananias's putting his hands on him.

Actes 9:12 In-Context

10 Or il y avait à Damas un disciple, nommé Ananias. Le Seigneur lui dit dans une vision: Ananias! Et il répondit: Me voici, Seigneur.
11 Et le Seigneur lui dit: Lève-toi, et va dans la rue qu'on appelle la Droite, et demande dans la maison de Judas un nommé Saul, de Tarse; car voici il prie.
12 Et dans une vision il a vu un homme, nommé Ananias, qui est entré, et qui lui a imposé les mains, afin qu'il recouvre la vue.
13 Mais Ananias répondit: Seigneur, j'ai appris de plusieurs combien cet homme a fait de mal à tes Saints à Jérusalem.
14 Et il a ici le pouvoir, de la part des principaux sacrificateurs, de lier tous ceux qui invoquent ton nom.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.