And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’
Paul establishes he is no enemy to his nation but one of them, born free in a respectable city, educated under Gamaliel in the strictest learning of the law. His credentials were unimpeachable among the Jews themselves; what he now preaches comes not from rebellion against his people but from divine commission.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 22:3-21
And I answered, who art thou, Lord?.... See Gill on Act 9:5. . Acts 22:9 act 22:9 act 22:9 act 22:9And they that were with me saw indeed the light,.... For it shone about them, as well as Saul: and were afraid; the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, have not this clause; but it stands in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; the...
Jesus of Nazareth--the Nazarene. See on Act 9:5.