Acts 26:17

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Summary

Acts 26:17

Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

Delivering

The gentiles

General references

Romans 3:29

Bible References

Delivering

And, after many days had passed, the Jews determined to kill him.

But the Jews in cited the devout and influential women, and the first men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders.

But when there was a violent purpose on the part of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to outrage and to stone them,

and they came, and entreated them, and led them out,. and requested them to depart from the city.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea; and when they had come, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

for I am with you, and no one shall make an assault upon you, to injure you; for I have many people in this city.

When they heard this, they were full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!

crying out: Men of Israel, help! this is the man who teaches all men every where against this people, and the law, and this place: and besides, he has even brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place.

And he said to me, Depart, for I will send you far off to the Gentiles.

And when there arose a great dissension, the officer, fearing that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the fortress.

and, asking a favor against him, besought him that he would send and have him brought to Jerusalem, laying a plot to kill him on the road.

The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which came upon us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.

At my first defense no one stood by me, but all forsook me; may it not be laid to their charge:

The gentiles

But the Lord said to him: Go; for he is a vessel chosen by me to bear my name before nations and kings, and the sons of Israel.

And he said to me, Depart, for I will send you far off to the Gentiles.

Therefore, be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

For I speak to you, Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I do honor to my ministry,

that I may be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

and knowing the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision,

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:

to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.

to which I have been appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles;

but the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, that through me that which is preached might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

General references

Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gen tiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: