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The work immediately before him was to depart and wait till the way should be opened to him, and the inward call be confirmed, as in <a href="/acts/13-2.htm" title="As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.">Acts 13:2</a>, by an outward and express command.<p><span class= "bld">Far hence unto the Gentiles.</span>—The crowd had listened, impatiently, we may believe, up to this point, as the speaker had once listened to St. Stephen. This, that the Christ should be represented as sending His messenger to the Gentiles, and not to Jews, was more than they could bear.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/acts/22.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>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.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/acts/22.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>And he said unto me, Depart - Because the Christians at Jerusalem would not receive him.<p>Far hence - Paul traveled far in the pagan nations. A large part of his ministry was spent in remote countries, and in the most distant regions then known. See <a href="/romans/15-19.htm">Romans 15:19</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/acts/22.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>21. depart for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles—that is, "Enough; thy testimony is not to be thrown away upon Jerusalem; the Gentiles, afar off, are thy peculiar sphere."<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/acts/22.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> God repeats his command, and by that answers all Paul’s reasonings; whatsoever the event be, whether the Gentiles will hear, or whether they will forbear, he must go unto them. When the will of God is manifest we must do it, whatsoever success we are like to have. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">I will send thee far hence; </span> this was verified; God sent Paul, and he went very far, as appears, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/9-15.htm" title="But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:">Acts 9:15</a> <a href="/romans/15-19.htm" title="Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.">Romans 15:19</a> <a href="/galatians/1-17.htm" title="Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.">Galatians 1:17</a> 2:8</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/acts/22.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he said unto me, depart,.... At once from Jerusalem, and out of the land of Judea: <p>for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles; to the nations afar off, even as far as Illyricum, Pannonia, or Hungary, where the apostle went and preached, <a href="/romans/15-19.htm">Romans 15:19</a> and so by a divine mission and commission he became the apostle of the Gentiles, and preached the Gospel among them with great success, to the conversion of many thousands of them, and to the planting of many churches in the midst of them. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/acts/22.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/acts/22.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/acts/22-21.htm" title="And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.">Acts 22:21</a>. <span class="greekheb">εἰς ἔθνη</span>: the mere mention of the Gentiles roused their fury, and they saw in it a justification of the charge in <a href="/acts/21-28.htm" title="Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.">Acts 21:28</a>; the scene closely resembled the tumultuous outburst which led to the murder of St. Stephen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/acts/22.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">21</span>. <span class="ital">I will send thee far hence</span>, &c.] <span class="ital">Rev. Ver.</span> “will send thee forth far hence, &c.” We need not understand the command as implying that the Apostle’s missionary labours were to begin from that moment, but that God’s work for him was now appointed, and would begin in His own time, but would be not among Jews or Greeks at Jerusalem, but among the Gentiles in distant places.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">unto the Gentiles</span>] St Paul had kept back the word which he was sure would rouse their anger as long as ever he could, and we may well suppose from the conciliatory tone of much of his speech that the attention of the crowd had been enlisted, for the speaker was a man of culture and spake their own tongue. But when the Gentiles are spoken of as recipients of God’s message they break forth into all the excitement of an Oriental mob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/acts/22.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/acts/22-21.htm" title="And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.">Acts 22:21</a>. <span class="greekheb">Εἰς ἔθνη</span>, <span class="ital">unto the Gentiles</span>) He implies, though not directly, that the tidings as to Jesus Christ would reach even to the <span class="ital">Romans</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/22.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> <span class="accented">- Send thee forth</span> for <span class="accented">send thee</span>, A.V. The natural understanding of the preceding dialogue is that Saul, when bid depart quickly out of Jerusalem because the Jews would not receive his testimony, was unwilling to obey, and pleaded that surely the Jews must listen to him and be convinced, since they were well aware how hot and zealous a partisan of the Jews he had been, and must see that nothing but a great miracle could have converted him. It was the argument of a young and impetuous man, with little experience of the headstrong obstinacy of bigoted men. The Lord cut him short with a peremptory "Depart!" but with the gracious addition, "I will send thee unto the Gentiles" - a commission which is more fully given in <a href="/acts/26-17.htm">Acts 26:17, 18</a>, and which was carried out in his whole life. Acts 22:21<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/acts/22.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Gentiles<p>"The fatal word, which hitherto he had carefully avoided, but which it was impossible for him to avoid any longer, was enough....The word 'Gentiles,' confirming all their worst suspicions, fell like a spark on the inflammable mass of their fanaticism" (Farrar, "Life and Work of Paul"). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/acts/22-21.htm">Acts 22:21 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../acts/22-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 22:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 22:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/22-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 22:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 22:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>