Acts 22:17

Acts 22:17

15 ^aFor you will be His witness to all men of ^bwhat you have seen and heard.

16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, ^aand wash away your sins, ^bcalling on the name of the Lord.’

17 “Now ^ait happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance

18 and ^asaw Him saying to me, ^b‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, for they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.’

19 So I said, ‘Lord, ^athey know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and ^bbeat those who believe on You.

20 ^aAnd when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by ^bconsenting to his death, and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’

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Acts 22:17 When I was come again to Jerusalem. This was three years after his conversion (Galatians 1:17). He shows in what follows that it was by Divine direction that he had devoted his life to the conversion of the Gentiles, that he would have labored with his own race, but that, while in the temple praying, he had a second vision of the Lord who, a second time, assured him that his work was with the Gentiles. In a trance. The Greek term "ekstasis", "ecstasy", means a state of mind when the spirit was, as it were, lifted out of the bodily conditions and enabled to discern things unseen. Compare Acts 10:10. Some have held that this trance in the temple is described in II Corinthians 12:2, but this is uncertain.

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