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

After some time the Jews laid a plot to kill Saul,

But the Jews incited the women of position who worshiped with them, and the leading men of the town, and started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their neighborhood.

And, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,

And went to the prison, and did their best to conciliate them. Then they took them out, and begged them to leave the city.

That very night the Brethren sent Paul and Silas off to Beroea; and on reaching that place, they went to the Jewish Synagogue.

For I am with you, and no one shall do you harm, for I have many People in this city."

When they heard this, the men were greatly enraged, and began shouting--"Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."

But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."

The dispute was becoming so violent, that the Commanding Officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces between them, ordered the Guard to go down and rescue him from them, and take him into the Fort.

And asked a favor of him, to Paul's injury--to have Paul brought to Jerusalem. All the while they were plotting to make away with him on the road.

The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape.

We want you, Brothers, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.

Though hard pressed on every side, we are never hemmed in; through perplexed, never driven to despair;

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!

At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!

The gentiles

But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."

Understand, then, that this Salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen."

But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.

Because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles--that I should act as a priest of God's Good News, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

Recognizing the charge entrusted to me, James, Peter, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the Church, openly acknowledged Barnabas and me as fellow-workers, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.

Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--

and it was for this that I was myself appointed a Herald and an Apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie)--a Teacher of the Gentiles in the Faith and Truth.

of which I was myself appointed a Herald and Apostle, and Teacher.

But the Lord came to my help and strengthened me, in order that, through me, the proclamation should be made so widely that all the Gentiles should hear it; and I was rescued 'out of the Lion's mouth.'

General references

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?