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“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Acts 9:6 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  • KJV And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
  • NKJV So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  • NASB but get up and enter the city, and it will be told to you what you must do.”
  • NLT Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

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Quick answer

Jesus commanded Saul to rise and enter the city, where he would receive further instruction. Grace comes with a call to obedience.

Overview

The Lord does not reveal everything at once but directs Saul to wait for guidance through the church. This shows that even an apostle called directly by Christ is brought into the community of believers. Saul's submission marks the beginning of a life wholly surrendered to the will of the one he once opposed.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Acts 22:10Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
  • 1 Tim 1:14–16And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Acts 26:16‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.
  • Acts 9:15–16“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
  • Acts 11:13–14He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
  • Gal 1:15–16But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
  • Acts 24:25–26As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”
  • Rom 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
  • Rom 10:20And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”
  • Acts 10:32Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
  • Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
  • Acts 10:22“Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”
  • Rom 9:15–24For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
  • Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  • Phil 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
  • Acts 16:29–30Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
  • Isa 57:18I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
  • Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
  • 1 Sam 28:5When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid and trembled violently.
  • Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
  • Ps 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
  • Matt 19:30But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
  • Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
  • Ezek 16:6–8Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
  • Acts 10:6He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
  • Luke 3:10The crowds asked him, “What then should we do?”
  • Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
  • Hab 3:16I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  • Jas 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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  • VideoBibleProject — Acts videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 9:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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