מעשי השליחים 9:20

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

וַיְמַהֵר וַיִּקְרָא בְּבָתֵּי כְנֵסִיּוֹת אֶת־יֵשׁוּעַ לֵאמֹר כִּי־הוּא בֶּן־הָאֱלֹהִים הוּא׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
וימהר ויקרא בבתי הכנסיות את המשיח לאמר כי הוא הוא בן האלהים׃

Bible Verse Review
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straightway: Acts 9:27, Acts 9:28, Galatians 1:23, Galatians 1:24

that: Acts 8:37, Psalms 2:7, Psalms 2:12, Matthew 26:63-66, Matthew 27:43, Matthew 27:54, John 1:49, John 19:7, John 20:28, John 20:31, Romans 1:4, Galatians 2:20, 1 John 4:14, 1 John 4:15, Revelation 2:18

Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:7 - he Isaiah 29:24 - also Matthew 4:23 - teaching Matthew 16:16 - Thou Mark 8:29 - Thou Luke 2:26 - the Lord's John 9:35 - Dost Acts 5:42 - preach Acts 8:5 - preached Acts 8:35 - preached Acts 9:29 - he spake Acts 11:20 - preaching Acts 14:1 - went Acts 17:2 - went Acts 19:8 - disputing Romans 1:3 - his Son Romans 16:25 - and the 2 Corinthians 1:19 - the Son Galatians 1:17 - went Philippians 1:15 - preach Colossians 1:28 - Whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues,.... The Syriac version adds, "of the Jews"; that is, which were in Damascus, Acts 9:2 from whence it appears, that he was immediately, as soon as converted, qualified for the work of preaching the Gospel: nor did he confer with flesh and blood, or stand disputing and debating with himself and carnal reason, what was best for him to do; but as soon as he knew Christ himself, he preached him to others, and whom he always made the subject of his ministry; and particularly,

that he is the Son of God; the only begotten of the Father, the eternal Son of God, truly and properly God, of the same nature and essence with God his Father, and equal to him. His design was to assert and maintain the dignity of his person, which is the foundation of his office, as Mediator, and of all the wonderful things he performed: had he meant no more than that he was the Messiah, the sense would only be, that he preached that Christ was the Christ; but the meaning is, that he preached that Jesus of Nazareth, the true Messiah, was not a mere man, but a divine person, even the Son of God: he set out in his ministry, with the principal and most fundamental article of the Christian religion, that which Christ asserted, and for which he suffered, and which all the apostles, and first Christians believed. The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read "Jesus", instead of "Christ".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And straightway - Immediately. It was an evidence of the genuineness of his conversion that he was willing at once to avow himself to be the friend of the Lord Jesus.

He preached Christ - He proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ. See Acts 9:22. Many manuscripts read here Jesus instead of Christ. Griesbach has adopted this reading. Such is also the Syriac, the Vulgate, and the Ethiopic. The reading accords much better with the subject than the common reading. That Christ, or the Messiah, was the Son of God, all admitted. In the New Testament the names Christ and Son of God are used as synonymous. But the question was whether Jesus was the Christ, and was therefore the Son of God, and this Paul showed to the Jews. Paul continued the practice of attending the synagogues; and in the synagogues anyone had a right to speak who was invited by the officiating minister. See Acts 13:15.

That he is the Son of God - That he is the Messiah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 9:20. Preached Christ in the synagogues — Instead of χριστον, Christ, ιησουν, Jesus, is the reading of ABCE, several others of high importance, together with the Syriac, Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Slavonic, and Vulgate.

The great question to be determined, for the conviction of the Jews, was that JESUS was the Son of God. That the Christ, or Messiah, was to be the Son of God, they all believed. Saul was now convinced that Jesus, whom they had crucified, and who had appeared to him on the way, was the Son of God, or Messiah; and therefore as such he proclaimed him. The word Christ should be changed for Jesus, as the latter is, without doubt, the genuine reading.

The first offers of the grace of the Gospel were uniformly made to the Jews. Saul did not at first offer Jesus to the heathens at Damascus; but to the synagogues of the Jews.