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

But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together how to kill him:

Then the Jews stirred up the devout women, and those who were respectable, and the principal persons of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

And when there was a strong effort made both by the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to ill-treat and stone them,

So they came and spoke kindly to them, and fetching them out, besought them to depart from the city.

Then the disciples immediately by night sent off both Paul and Silas to Berea; who were no sooner arrived, than they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

for I am with thee, and no man shall set himself against thee to do thee harm; because I have much people in this city.

On hearing this then, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is the man, who, by his preaching, sets all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: yea and more still, hath brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place:

And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee forth to the Gentiles afar off.

Then a great tumult arising, the tribune, apprehensive that Paul might be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the guard to go down, and take him by force from the midst of them, and bring him into the fortress.

begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.

Then the soldiers' design was to have murdered the prisoners, lest any of them should swim ashore and escape.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair;

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

the persecutions, the sufferings, which beset me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet out of them all the Lord delivered me.

At my first apology no man stood by me, but all forsook me: (may it not be imputed to them!)

The gentiles

But the Lord said unto him, Go: for this man is an elect vessel for me, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the children of Israel:

And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee forth to the Gentiles afar off.

Be it known therefore unto you, that to the Gentiles is the salvation of God sent, and they will hear.

For I address myself to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed the apostle of the Gentiles, I exalt my ministry:

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God; that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

And when they knew the grace which was bestowed on me, James and Cephas and John, who appeared to be the pillars [of the church], gave unto me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision:

of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

of which I am ordained a preacher and apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully discharged, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was snatched out of the lion's mouth.

General references

Is he the God of the Jews only, and is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, verily, of the Gentiles also: