Teks -- Acts 9:16 (NET)

9:16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

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Robertson: Act 9:16 - I will shew

I will shew ( hupodeixō ).

Beforehand as a warning as in Luk 3:7 and from time to time.

Robertson: Act 9:16 - He must suffer

He must suffer ( dei auton pathein ).

Constative aorist active infinitive (pathein , from paschō ) covering the whole career of Saul. Suffering is one element in the call that Saul receives. He will learn "how many things"(hosa ) are included in this list by degrees and by experience. A glance at 2 Corinthians 10-12 will show one the fulfilment of this prophecy. But it was the "gift"of Christ to Paul to go on suffering (paschein , present infinitive, Phi 1:29).

Vincent: Act 9:16 - How great things

How great things ( ὅσα )

Rev., more correctly, how many.

Wesley: Act 9:16 - For I

Do thou as thou art commanded.

Wesley: Act 9:16 - I will take care of the rest; will show him

In fact, through the whole course of his ministry.

Wesley: Act 9:16 - How great things he must suffer

So far will he be now from persecuting others.

JFB: Act 9:10-16 - a certain disciple . . . named Ananias

See on Act 22:12.

JFB: Act 9:10-16 - to him said the Lord

That is, Jesus. (See Act 9:13-14, Act 9:17).

JFB: Act 9:16 - I will show him

(See Act 20:23-24; Act 21:11).

JFB: Act 9:16 - how great things he must suffer for my name

That is, Much he has done against that Name; but now, when I show him what great things he must suffer for that Name, he shall count it his honor and privilege.

Clarke: Act 9:16 - How great things he must suffer

How great things he must suffer - Instead of proceeding as a persecutor, and inflicting sufferings on others, I will show him how many things he himself must suffer for preaching that very doctrine which he has been hitherto employed in persecuting. Strange change indeed! And with great show of reason, as with incontrovertible strength of argument, has a noble writer, Lord Lyttleton, adduced the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, and his subsequent conduct, as an irrefragable proof of the truth of Christianity

Some think that the words, I will show him, etc., refer to a visionary representation, which Christ was immediately to give Saul, of the trials and difficulties which he should have to encounter; as also of that death by which he should seal his testimony to the truth. If so, what a most thorough conviction must Saul have had of the truth of Christianity, cheerfully and deliberately to give up all worldly honors and profits, and go forward in a work which he knew a violent death was to terminate!

Calvin: Act 9:16 - And because

16.And because Paul could not do this, and have Satan quiet, and the world to yield to him willingly; therefore Luke addeth, that he shall be also taught to bear the cross. For the meaning of the words is, I will accustom him to suffer troubles: to endure reproaches, and to abide all manner [of] conflicts, that nothing may terrify him, and keep him back from doing his duty. And when Christ maketh himself Paul’s teacher in this matter, he teacheth that the more every man hath profited in his school, the more able is he to bear the cross. For we strive against it, and refuse it as a thing most contrary, until he make our minds more gentle. Also this place teacheth, that no man is fit to preach the gospel, seeing the world is set against it, save only he which is armed to suffer. Therefore if we will show ourselves faithful ministers of Christ, we must not only crave at his hands the spirit of knowledge and wisdom, but also of constancy and strength, that we may never be discouraged by laboring and toiling; which is the estate of the godly.

TSK: Act 9:16 - I will // for

I will : Act 20:22, Act 20:23, Act 21:11; Isa 33:1; Mat 10:21-25; Joh 15:20, Joh 16:1-4; 1Co 4:9-13; 2Co 11:23-27; 2Ti 1:12, 2Ti 2:9, 2Ti 2:10, 2Ti 3:11

for : Act 9:14; Mat 5:11, Mat 24:9; 1Pe 4:14; Rev 1:9

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Poole: Act 9:16

He shall suffer as great things as he ever did cause or inflict; the hatred of his own countrymen the Jews, and the fury of the Gentiles: see the catalogue of them, 2Co 11:23-27 . And were there ever so many sufferings heaped upon one man? And yet, though all these were foretold unto him, and certainly foreknown by him, he would preach the gospel for all that: much was forgiven him, and he loved much.

Gill: Act 9:16 - For I will show him // how great things he must suffer for my name's sake

For I will show him,.... In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him:

how great things he must suffer for my name's sake; such as weariness, pain, and watchings, hunger, thirst, fastings, cold, and nakedness, perils on various accounts, and from different quarters, stripes, scourges, imprisonment, shipwreck, stoning, and death, of which he himself gives a detail, 2Co 11:23 so that Ananias had no reason to be afraid to go to him, and converse with him, and do unto him as he was directed.