Acts 9:16

16 For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake."

Acts 9:16 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 9:16

For I will show him
In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him:

how great things he must suffer for my name's sake;
such as weariness, pain, and watchings, hunger, thirst, fastings, cold, and nakedness, perils on various accounts, and from different quarters, stripes, scourges, imprisonment, shipwreck, stoning, and death, of which he himself gives a detail, ( 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 ) so that Ananias had no reason to be afraid to go to him, and converse with him, and do unto him as he was directed.

Acts 9:16 In-Context

14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Thy name."

15 But the Lord said unto him, "Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

16 For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake."

17 And Ananias went his way and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus who appeared unto thee on the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost."

18 And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received sight forthwith, and arose and was baptized.