Acts 22:13

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.

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Σαοὺλ

Saoúl

G4549

“Saul”

Noun, Proper, indeclinable

Appears 9× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Acts 9:4

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: of hebrew origin H7586

TDNT: None

Saul = "desired" 1. the Jewish name of the apostle Paul 2. the son of Kish and the first king of Israel

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

17: words
14: distinct lemmas
Acts: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is Σαοὺλ Saul G4549 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

Σαοὺλ Saul G4549 occurs in 6 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

ἀνάβλεψον to look up G308 ×2
ἐμὲ I G1473 ×2
αὐτῇ he G846 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Acts 22:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Acts 9:17–18 Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
Philemon 1:16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

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Commentary

Notes on Acts 22:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Expositor's Greek Testament

ed. W. Robertson Nicoll

Act 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 Luk 2:9 ; Luk 4:39 ; Luk 10:40 ; Luk 12:7 ; Luk 24:4 , only found in Luke and Paul, Friedrich, p. 42, see above Act 12:7 . μαρτ ., Act 6:3 . ἀδελφέ , Act 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, Act 9:17-18 , or (2) to look up, Luk 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 Act 16:18 .

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

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 (Luk_19:5) looking up and seeing Zacchæus in the sycomore tree, and (Joh_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.”

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

For thou shalt be his witness unto all men,.... Gentiles as well as Jews, an eye and an ear witness to them;

of what thou hast seen and heard; as that he saw him personally and alive, and so could witness to the truth of his resurrection; for after he had been seen by all the apostles, he was last of all seen of Paul; and also, that he heard him and received from him the Gospel, and a mission and commission to preach it; for what he preached he did not receive of man, nor was he taught it by any, but he had it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

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

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Standing by me for stood, and, A.V.; in that very for the same, A.V.; on for upon, A.V.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

McGarvey & Pendleton's Commentaries

J. W. McGarvey

See notes on verse 3

J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

13. καὶ ἐπιστάς, and standing by me. The Apostle in his blindness was seated, no doubt, and the messenger came and stood over him.

ἀνάβλεψον … ἀνέβλεψα εἰς αὐτόν, receive thy sight … I looked up upon him. For the two renderings of the verb, cf. Luk 19:5, where ἀναβλέψας is used of Jesus looking up at Zacchæus in the sycamore tree, with Joh 9:11, where ἀνέβλεψα is said by the blind man who describes how he received his sight.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Alford’s Greek Testament

Henry Alford

13. ἀνέβλ. εἰς αὐτόν] De W. remarks, that the two meanings of ἀναβλέπω here unite in the word: I looked, with recovered sight, upon him.

14-16 is not related, but included, in ch. 9:15-19.

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament

Marvin R. Vincent

Stood [επιστας] . More correctly, as Rev., "standing by [επι] ." Receive thy sight [αναβλεψον] . 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.

Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

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Acts, in the Acts, opens this verse with 17 words (14 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Saoúl (“Saul”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Saul” (Saoúl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Acts 9:4, which shares the word «Saul», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to look up” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how Expositor's Greek Testament and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“to look up” occurs 2× in this single verse.
14 distinct Greek lemmas span 17 words in this verse.