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Acts 9:1 KJV
Acts · chapter 9 · verse 1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,Acts 9:1 · King James Version
Acts 9:1 in context
1And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
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- threateningsapeilēa threatening, threatG547 →
- slaughterphonosmurder, slaughterG5408 →
- disciplesmathētēsa learner, pupil, discipleG3101 →
- againsteisinto, unto, to, towards, for, amongG1519 →
- SaulsaulosSaul = " desired" , the Jewish name of the apostle PaulG4569 →
- Lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
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We found mention made of Saul twice or thrice in the story of Stephen, for the sacred penman longed to come to his story; and now we are come to it, not quite taking leave of Peter but from henceforward being mostly taken up with Paul the apostle of the Gentiles, as Peter was of the circumcision.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9