9And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
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And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; …
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Many are the troubles of the righteous, but some way or other the Lord delivereth them out of them all . Paul owned he had experienced the truth of this in the persecutions he had undergone among the Gentiles (see 2 Tim. 3:11): Out of them all the Lord delivered me . And now he finds that he who has delivered does and will deliver. He that delivered him in the foregoing chapter from the tumult of…
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