Acts 9:18

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.”

— WEB

“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”

— KJV

“And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;”

— ASV

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Acts 13:37-38 "But he whom God raised up saw no decay."
Acts 2:41 "Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls."

Commentary

there fell from his eyes as it were scales--"This shows that the blindness as well as the cure was supernatural. Substances like scales would not form naturally in so short a time" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. And the medical precision of Luke's language here is to be noted. was baptized--as directed by Ananias (Act 22:16).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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