{"id":1937,"date":"2012-02-02T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2022-02-25T01:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:53:34","slug":"acts-2212-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Acts 22:12-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">12 \u201cThen a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">13 came to me; and he stood and said to me, \u2018Brother Saul, receive your sight.\u2019 And at that same hour I looked up at him.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">14 Then he said, \u2018The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Paul, in talking to the Jews who were &#8220;zealous for the law,&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1919\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Acts 21:20<\/span><\/a>) mentions that Ananais was &#8220;a devout man according to the law&#8221; (v.12). He does not mention Christ by name but calls him the Just One (v.14). He also does not mention the Gentiles until later.<\/h3>\n<h3>chose (v.14) = appointed, lit. &#8220;to take in hand&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 \u201cThen a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there, 13 came to me; and he stood and said to me, \u2018Brother Saul, receive your sight.\u2019 And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1937\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-acts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}