Acts 22:17-18

     17-21. it came to pass, &c.—This thrilling dialogue between the glorified Redeemer and his chosen vessel is nowhere else related.

      when I was come again to Jerusalem—on the occasion mentioned in Ac 9:26-29.

      while I prayed in the temple—He thus calls their attention to the fact that after his conversion he kept up his connection with the temple as before.

     18. get . . . quickly out of Jerusalem—compare Ac 9:29.

      for they will not receive thy testimony . . . And I said, Lord, they know, &c.—"Can it be, Lord, that they will resist the testimony of one whom they knew so well as among the bitterest of all against Thy disciples, and whom nothing short of resistless evidence could have turned to Thee?"

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