| Geneva Study Bible And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the {m} Grecians: but they went about to slay him. (m) See Ac 6:1. People's New Testament 9:29 He... disputed against the Grecians. The Jews in Jerusalem who had been born in foreign countries and spoke the Greek language. See PNT Ac 6:1. Scofield Reference Notes Margin Grecians Hellenists, i.e. Grecian Jews. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 29. disputed against the Grecians-(See on [1975]Ac 6:1); addressing himself specially to them, perhaps, as being of his own class, and that against which he had in the days of his ignorance been the fiercest. they went about to slay him-Thus was he made to feel, throughout his whole course, what he himself had made others so cruelly to feel, the cost of discipleship. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 9:23-31 When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was and is a proof of the truth of Christianity, yet it could not, of itself, convert one soul at enmity with the truth; for nothing can produce true faith, but that power which new-creates the heart. Believers are apt to be too suspicious of those against whom they have prejudices. The world is full of deceit, and it is necessary to be cautious, but we must exercise charity, 1Co 13:5. The Lord will clear up the characters of true believers; and he will bring them to his people, and often gives them opportunities of bearing testimony to his truth, before those who once witnessed their hatred to it. Christ now appeared to Saul, and ordered him to go quickly out of Jerusalem, for he must be sent to the Gentiles: see ch. 22:21. Christ's witnesses cannot be slain till they have finished their testimony. The persecutions were stayed. The professors of the gospel walked uprightly, and enjoyed much comfort from the Holy Ghost, in the hope and peace of the gospel, and others were won over to them. They lived upon the comfort of the Holy Ghost, not only in the days of trouble and affliction, but in days of rest and prosperity. Those are most likely to walk cheerfully, who walk circumspectly. | 
