Acts Chapter 9 verse 18 Holy Bible
And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;
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And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;
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And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he saw, and rising up was baptised;
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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
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Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Straightway for immediately, A.V.; as it were for as it had been, A.V.; received his sight for received sight forthwith, A.V. and T.R.; he arose for arose, A.V. As it were scales (λεπίδες); scales, or flakes; any thin substance which peals off; a frequent term in Greek medical writers. And was baptized. It is a curious difference between St. Paul and the other apostles that, if they were baptized at all, which is doubtful, they must have been baptized by Christ himself; whereas St. Paul received his baptism at the hands of Ananias. This is one mark of his being "born out of due time." And yet he was not behind the very chiefest apostles.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) There fell from his eyes as it had been scales.--The description suggests the thought that the blindness was caused by an incrustation, caused by acute inflammation, covering the pupil of the eye, or closing up the eye-lids, analogous to the "whiteness," that peeled (or scaled) off from the eyes of Tobit (Tobit 11:13). Like phenomena are mentioned by Hippocrates, and the care with which St. Luke records the fact in this instance, may be noted, with Acts 3:7; Acts 28:8, as one of the examples of the technical precision of his calling as a physician.Arose, and was baptised.--It is clear that both Saul and Ananias looked on this as the indispensable condition for admission into the visible society of the kingdom of God. No visions and revelations of the Lord, no intensity of personal conversion, exempted him from it. For him, too, that was the "washing of regeneration" (Titus 3:5), the moment of the new birth, of being buried with Christ (Romans 6:3-4). It may be inferred almost as a matter of certainty that it was at the hands of Ananias that he received baptism. The baptism would probably be administered in one or other of the rivers which the history of Naaman had made famous, and so the waters of "Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus" (2Kings 5:12), were now sanctified no less than those of Jordan for the "mystical washing away of sin." . . .
