Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Whereupon (en oiv). "In which things" (affairs of persecution), "on which errand." Cf. Acts 24:18. Paul made them leave Palestine (Acts 11:19) and followed them beyond it (Acts 9:2).
With the authority and commission (met ecousiav kai epitrophv). Not merely "authority" (ecousia), but express appointment (epitroph, old word, but here only in N.T., derived from epitropov, steward, and that from epitrepw, to turn over to, to commit).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 26:12:
Acts 9:3
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