Acts 22:13

Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:12-21 The apostle goes on to relate how he was confirmed in the change he had made. The Lord having chosen the sinner, that he should know his will, he is humbled, enlightened, and brought to the knowledge of Christ and his blessed gospel. Christ is here called that Just One; for he is Jesus Christ the righteous. Those whom God has chosen to know his will, must look to Jesus, for by him God has made known his good-will to us. The great gospel privilege, sealed to us by baptism, is the pardon of sins. Be baptized, and wash away thy sins; that is, receive the comfort of the pardon of thy sins in and through Jesus Christ, and lay hold on his righteousness for that purpose; and receive power against sin, for the mortifying of thy corruptions. Be baptized, and rest not in the sign, but make sure of the thing signified, the putting away of the filth of sin. The great gospel duty, to which by our baptism we are bound, is, to seek for the pardon of our sins in Christ's name, and in dependence on him and his righteousness. God appoints his labourers their day and their place, and it is fit they should follow his appointment, though it may cross their own will. Providence contrives better for us than we do for ourselves; we must refer ourselves to God's guidance. If Christ send any one, his Spirit shall go along with him, and give him to see the fruit of his labours. But nothing can reconcile man's heart to the gospel, except the special grace of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes on Acts 9:17-18.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13-15. The God of our fathers hath chosen thee—studiously linking the new economy upon the old, as but the sequel of it; both having one glorious Author.

Matthew Poole's Commentary

Stood; that in this posture he might more conveniently put his hands upon Paul; which we read that he now did, Acts 9:17, and was ordinarily done upon the miraculous curing of any.

The same hour; or, as Acts 9:18, immediately. The suddenness of the cures spake the power from whence they came: none but God saves and delivers after this manner.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Came unto me,.... Being at the house of Judas, in that street of Damascus called Straight, Acts 9:11 and stood; at the side of him, or by him, putting his hands on him:

and said unto me, brother Saul; See Gill on Acts 9:17.

receive thy sight, "or look up",

and the same hour I looked up upon him; that is, immediately, directly: for so the phrase, "that same hour", is frequently used by the Jews: the words in Numbers 16:21 "that I may consume them in a moment", are rendered by Onkelos, "that I may consume them in an hour"; for an hour is used for a moment with them.

Geneva Study Bible

Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Expositor's Greek Testament

Acts 22:13. ἐπιστὰς: “standing over one,” used frequently in Acts of the appearance of an angel, or of the intervention of a friend (or of an enemy), see Luke 2:9; Luke 4:39; Luke 10:40; Luke 12:7; Luke 24:4, only found in Luke and Paul, Friedrich, p. 42, see above Acts 12:7. μαρτ., Acts 6:3. ἀδελφέ, Acts 9:17.—ἀνάβλεψον … ἀνέβλ. εἰς αὐτόν: “receive thy sight, and in that very hour I recovered my sight and looked upon him,” R.V. margin, ἀναβλέπειν may mean (1) to recover sight, Acts 9:17-18, or (2) to look up, Luke 19:5, but used frequently as if combining both meanings, Humphry on R.V., and Page, in loco. Meyer and Zöckler render “to look up” in both clauses.—αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ, see note on Acts 16:18.

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

13. and stood] The fuller force of the compound verb is given by the Rev. Ver. “and standing by me.”

receive thy sight … I looked up, &c.] The verb is the same in both places, and this the Rev. Ver. has noted in the margin. But the word is used in both senses elsewhere in N. T., as of Jesus (Luke 19:5) looking up and seeing Zacchæus in the sycomore tree, and (John 9:11) of the blind man who received his sight.

And the same hour] Rev. Ver. with strict grammatical warrant, “and in that very hour.”

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Standing by me for stood, and, A.V.; in that very for the same, A.V.; on for upon, A.V. Acts 22:13

Vincent's Word Studies

Stood (ἐπιστὰς)

More correctly, as Rev., "standing by (ἐπί)."

Receive thy sight (ἀνάβλεψον)

Better, look up. See the following words: I looked up upon him. The word admits of both translations, to look up and to recover sight.

I looked up upon him

Some unite both meanings here: I looked up with recovered sight. So Rev., in margin.