And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, that as I made my journey,.... And had almost made an end of it:
and was come nigh unto Damascus; about a mile from it, as some say,
about noon; this circumstance is omitted…
See the notes on Act 9:3-7. Act 22:6 As I made my journey - As I was on my journey. About noon - Act 26:13, “at mid-day.” This circumstance is omitted by Luke in his account in Acts 9: Paul mentions…
Adam Clarke
As I made my journey, etc. - See the whole of this account, and all the particular circumstances, considered at large in the notes on Act 9:1 (note), etc., and the observations at the conclusion of…
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…
Cambridge Bible
about noon The time of the day at which the vision occurred is not noticed in chap. 9, but in chap. 26 the Apostle also mentions that it was "at mid-day," at which time the heavenly brightness must…
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