Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and particularly in...
Commenting on Acts 22:3-21
And as they cried out,.... In this furious manner: and cast off their clothes; either like madmen, that knew not what they did, or in order to stone him; see Act 7:57. and threw dust into the air either with their hands, or by striking the earth, and scraping it with their feet, through indignation and wrath, like persons possessed, or mad.
Verse 21. And he said unto me, Depart. Because the Christians at Jerusalem would not receive him. Far hence. Paul travelled far in the heathen nations. A large part of his time in the ministry was spent in remote countries, and in the most distant regions then known. . (m) "I will"