Acts 9

The importance of this section need hardly be stated. Here we have related the early preparations for the fulfillment of Christ’s own Word just before His ascension: “Ye shall be my witnesses…unto the uttermost part of the earth.” For the conversion of Saul, spectacular and significant as it is by itself, has certainly its chief end in this, that the Lord prepared His chosen vessel to bear His name unto the Gentiles. The story itself is rather well-known – so well-known that we may be inclined...