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Text -- Acts 9:1-5 (NET)

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The Conversion of Saul
9:1 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest 9:2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 9:3 As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 9:4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 9:5 So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” He replied, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Damascus a city-state in Syria, located near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS),a town near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS)
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Damascus | Paul | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 1-7 | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE | Bigotry | Conversion | Persecution | Heart | Syria | Jesus, The Christ | TRANCE | Apostle | Converts | Regeneration | Miracles | Resurrection of Christ | Vision | Call | Synagogue | PHARISEES | more
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NET Notes: Act 9:1 The expression “breathing out threats and murder” is an idiomatic expression for “making threats to murder” (see L&N 33.29...

NET Notes: Act 9:2 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

NET Notes: Act 9:3 Or “shone” (BDAG 799 s.v. περιαστράπτω). The light was more brilliant than the...

NET Notes: Act 9:4 Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

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