Les Feldick Bible Study

How many times does the Book of Acts record Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus?

The Book of Acts records Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus three times. Acts chapter 9 is identified as the first of three accounts in Acts of that conversion. This event is therefore recorded three times within the Book of Acts.

Les explains that Acts chapter 9 gives the first of three accounts in the Book of Acts of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. He notes that many have heard the account from pulpits and Sunday school material, but too many overlook a crucial statement of the Lord Jesus in Acts 9:11. There, after Saul has that tremendous experience outside the city, the Lord tells Ananias in Damascus to go into the street called Straight, to the house of Judas, and inquire for Saul of Tarsus, who has seen a vision of Ananias coming and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight. Thus the Damascus-road conversion is reviewed in Acts, beginning with this first account.

Acts 9:1

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

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