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

Proverbs 14:25

Romans 3:29

Bible References

Delivering

When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

The gentiles

But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

"Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen."

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

General references

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,