The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
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- KJV And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
- BSB “Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
- NKJV So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saulof Tarsus, for behold, he is praying.
- NASB And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,
- NLT The Lord said, “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.
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Quick answer
The Lord told Ananias exactly where to find Saul, adding that he was praying. The fierce persecutor is now a man at prayer.
Overview
The precise directions show God's intimate knowledge and sovereign orchestration of events. The note that Saul is praying signals the genuine change already at work in him. The one who breathed threats now calls on the Lord, evidence that grace has begun its transforming work.
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Cross-references · 28
- Acts 9:30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 11:25Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
- Acts 22:3“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
- Acts 21:39But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
- Luke 11:9–10“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
- Luke 18:7–14Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
- Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Acts 2:21It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Acts 11:13He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,
- Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
- Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Ps 40:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- 2 Chr 33:18–19Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
- Job 33:18–28He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Ps 32:3–6When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Acts 8:26But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
- 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
- Acts 10:5–6Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.
- Luke 23:42–43He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
- Jonah 2:1–4Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
- Ps 130:1–3A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
- Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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