Acts 9:21

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And everyone who heard him was amazed and exclaimed, “Is this not the man who tried to destroy all the people who called on [Jesus’] name in Jerusalem and has now come here [to Damascus] for the purpose of arresting them and bringing them before the leading priests?”

Cross References

Acts 2:12

And they were amazed and perplexed [over this] and began saying to one another, “What does all this mean?”

Acts 2:6

And when they heard the noise [of the blowing wind] a large number of them assembled [around the apostles] and were puzzled over how they could hear them speaking in their native languages.

Acts 3:10

And they recognized him as the same person who had sat at the “Beautiful Gate” of the Temple begging for money, and they were filled with wonder and amazement over what had happened to him.

Acts 4:13

Now when these men saw how boldly Peter and John spoke, and perceived that they were uneducated and [even] ignorant men, they were quite surprised; then they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 7:59

So, they stoned Stephen [to death] as he called out to the Lord, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit [as I die].”

Acts 8:3

But Saul brought devastation to the church by entering everyone’s house and dragging men and women off to jail.

Acts 9:22

But Saul was strengthened [spiritually] and proceeded to confound the Jews living [there] in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

On that day Jesus will return to be honored by His saints [i.e., God’s holy people] and to be marveled at [i.e., in reverence] by all those who had believed [in Him]. [This will happen] because you have believed our testimony to you [about Christ].

1 John 3:1

Look at how much love the Father has shown to us [Christians], that we should be called His children! But, that is what we [really] are! The reason the people of the world do not know who we are is because they do not know who God [really] is.