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Selected Verse: Acts 12:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 12:9 |
King James |
And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| wist not that it was true; but thought he saw a vision--So little did the apostle look for deliverance! |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And wist not - Knew not.
That it was true - That it was real.
But thought he saw a vision - He supposed that it was a representation made to his mind similar to what he had seen before. Compare Act 10:11-12. It was so astonishing, so unexpected, so wonderful, that he could not realize that it was true. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
angel
See note, (See Scofield) - (Heb 1:4). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He - wist not - He knew not; from the Anglo-Saxon, to know. He supposed himself to be in a dream. |
11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.