| Acts 9:9 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | For three days he couldn't see and didn't eat or drink.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. |
| ASV: | And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink. |
| BBE: | And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink. |
| DBY: | And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank. |
| ERV: | And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink. |
| WEY: | And for two days he remained without sight, and did not eat or drink anything. |
| WBS: | And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank. |
| WEB: | He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. |
| YLT: | and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink. |
| Acts 9:9 Cross References |
| XREF: | Acts 9:8 Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.
Acts 9:10 Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 9:9 And he was three days - An important season! So long he seems to have been in the pangs of the new birth. Without sight - By scales growing over his eyes, to intimate to him the blindness of the state he had been in, to impress him with a deeper sense of the almighty power of Christ, and to turn his thoughts inward, while he was less capable of conversing with outward objects. This was likewise a manifest token to others, of what had happened to him in his journey, and ought to have humbled and convinced those bigoted Jews, to whom he had been sent from the sanhedrim. |
| MHC: | 9:1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby; he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not despair of renewing grace for the conversion of the greatest sinners, nor let such despair of the pardoning mercy of God for the greatest sin. It is a signal token of Divine favour, if God, by the inward working of his grace, or the outward events of his providence, stops us from prosecuting or executing sinful purposes. Saul saw that Just One, ch. 22:14; 26:13. How near to us is the unseen world! It is but for God to draw aside the veil, and objects are presented to the view, compared with which, whatever is most admired on earth is mean and contemptible. Saul submitted without reserve, desirous to know what the Lord Jesus would have him to do. Christ's discoveries of himself to poor souls are humbling; they lay them very low, in mean thoughts of themselves. For three days Saul took no food, and it pleased God to leave him for that time without relief. His sins were now set in order before him; he was in the dark concerning his own spiritual state, and wounded in spirit for sin. When a sinner is brought to a proper sense of his own state and conduct, he will cast himself wholly on the mercy of the Saviour, asking what he would have him to do. God will direct the humbled sinner, and though he does not often bring transgressors to joy and peace in believing, without sorrows and distress of conscience, under which the soul is deeply engaged as to eternal things, yet happy are those who sow in tears, for they shall reap in joy. |
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