Verš 1
Now Saul, still breathing threats and beatings against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Sk 8:3 - Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison.
Sk 22:4 - I persecuted this Way, even unto death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women,
Sk 26:9 - And certainly, I myself formerly considered that I ought to act in many ways which are contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
1Kor 15:9 - For I am the least of the Apostles. I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
Gal 1:13 - For you have heard of my former behavior within Judaism: that, beyond measure, I persecuted the Church of God and fought against Her.
1Tim 1:13 - though previously I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contemptuous. But then I obtained the mercy of God. For I had been acting ignorantly, in unbelief.
Verš 3
And as he made the journey, it happened that he was approaching Damascus. And suddenly, a light from heaven shone around him.
Sk 22:6 - But it happened that, as I was traveling and was approaching Damascus at midday, suddenly from heaven a great light shone around me.
1Kor 15:8 - And last of all, he was seen also by me, as if I were someone born at the wrong time.
2Kor 12:2 - I know a man in Christ, who, more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows), was enraptured to the third heaven.
Sk 26:13 - at midday, O king, I and those who were also with me, saw along the way a light from heaven shining around me with a splendor greater than that of the sun.
Verš 5
And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goad.”
Sk 5:39 - Yet truly, if it is of God, you will not be able to break it, and perhaps you might be found to have fought against God.” And they agreed with him.
Verš 6
And he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do you want me to do?”
Lk 3:10 - And the crowed was questioning him, saying, “What then should we do?”
Sk 2:37 - Now when they had heard these things, they were contrite in heart, and they said to Peter and to the other Apostles: “What should we do, noble brothers?”
Sk 16:30 - And bringing them outside, he said, “Sirs, what must I do, so that I may be saved?”
Verš 7
And the Lord said to him, “Rise up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do.” Now the men who were accompanying him were standing stupefied, hearing indeed a voice, but seeing no one.
Dan 10:7 - But I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it, but an exceedingly great terror rushed over them, and they fled into hiding.
Verš 11
And the Lord said to him: “Rise up and go into the street that is called Straight, and 635 seek, in the house of Judas, the one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying.”
Sk 21:39 - But Paul said to him: “I am a man, indeed a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a well-known city. So I petition you, permit me to speak to the people.”
Sk 22:3 - And he said: “I am a Jewish man, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but raised in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, just as all of you also are to this day.
Verš 13
But Ananias responded: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
Sk 9:1 - Now Saul, still breathing threats and beatings against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
1Kor 15:9 - For I am the least of the Apostles. I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
Gal 1:13 - For you have heard of my former behavior within Judaism: that, beyond measure, I persecuted the Church of God and fought against Her.
1Tim 1:13 - though previously I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contemptuous. But then I obtained the mercy of God. For I had been acting ignorantly, in unbelief.
Verš 15
Then the Lord said to him: “Go, for this one is an instrument chosen by me to convey my name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.
Sk 13:2 - Now as they were ministering for the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them: “Separate Saul and Barnabas for me, for the work for which I have selected them.”
Sk 22:21 - And he said to me, ‘Go forth. For I am sending you to far away nations.’ ”
Rim 1:1 - Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God,
Gal 1:15 - But, when it pleased him who, from my mother’s womb, had set me apart, and who has called me by his grace,
Gal 2:8 - For he who was working the Apostleship to the circumcised in Peter, was also working in me among the Gentiles.
Ef 3:8 - Although I am the least of all the saints, I have been given this grace: to evangelize among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
1Tim 2:7 - Of this testimony, I have been appointed a preacher and an Apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie) as a teacher of the Gentiles, in faith and in truth.
2Tim 1:11 - Of this Gospel, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Verš 16
For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name.”
Sk 21:11 - And he, when he had come to us, took Paul’s belt, and binding his own feet and hands, he said: “Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way at Jerusalem. And they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.”
2Kor 11:23 - They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.
Verš 17
And Ananias departed. And he entered the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, he who appeared to you on the way by which you arrived, sent me so that you would receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Sk 22:12 - Then a certain Ananias, a man in accord with the law, having the testimony of all the Jews who were living there,
Verš 24
But their treachery became known to Saul. Now they were also watching the gates, day and night, so that they might put him to death.
2Kor 11:32 - At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, watched over the city of the Damascenes, so as to apprehend me.
Verš 25
But the disciples, taking him away by night, sent him over the wall by letting him down in a basket.
Joz 2:15 - Therefore, she sent them down from a window with a rope. For her house was joined to the wall.
1Sam 19:12 - she lowered him down through a window. Then he fled and went away, and he was saved.
Verš 26
And when he had arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
Sk 22:17 - Then it happened that, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, a mental stupor came over me,
Verš 27
But Barnabas took him aside and led him to the Apostles. And he explained to them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how, in Damascus, he had acted faithfully in the name of Jesus.
Sk 11:25 - Then Barnabas set out for Tarsus, so that he might seek Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch.
Sk 9,2 - Právomoc veľkňaza sa v náboženských otázkach rozprestierala aj na Židov, ktorí žili za hranicami Palestíny. Výraz "Cesta" tu znamená cestu spásy, život podľa Kristovho učenia (porov. 24, 22). Preto výraz píšeme s veľkým C.
Sk 9,11 - Rovná ulica je jedna z dvoch hlavných ulíc v Damasku a viedla z východu na západ.
Sk 9,13 - "Svätí" sú kresťania (9, 32. 41; 26, 10); podobne aj "posvätení" (20, 32; 26, 18).
Sk 9,20 - Pavol je presvedčený, že sa mu na ceste zjavil sám Ježiš, a to osobne, a svoje videnie zaraďuje medzi ostatné zjavenia Vzkrieseného, keď tvrdí: "Poslednému zjavil sa aj mne" (1 Kor 15, 8). Nejde teda u Pavla o nejaký vnútorný, duchovný zážitok na ceste do Damasku, ale o skutočné videnie (1 Kor 9, 1), ktoré Pavol dobre rozoznáva (porov. 2 Kor 12, 1–4).
Sk 9,23 - Pavol sa v Damasku zdržal iba krátko a potom odišiel na púšť do Arábie, aby sa tam v samote pripravil na svoje budúce poslanie. Potom sa vrátil znova do Damasku (Gal 1, 17) a vtedy sa prihodilo, čo sa spomína vo vv. 23–25.
Sk 9,28 - "Žil s nimi"; doslovne: vchádzal a vychádzal (porov. 1, 21).
Sk 9,35 - Sáron je rovina pozdĺž palestínskeho pobrežia pri Stredozemnom mori; tiahne sa od mesta Joppe po Cézareu.
Sk 9,36 - "Dorkas" (gr.) znamená "Srnka".