ACC ~ Acts 9 v9

THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION. CHRYSOSTOM: “And for three days neither did he eat nor drink, being blinded.” What could equal this? To compensate the discouragement in the matter of Stephen, here is encouragement, in the bringing in of Paul. Though that sadness had its consolation in the fact of Stephen’s making such an end, yet it also received this further consolation. Moreover, the bringing in of the villages of the Samaritans afforded very great comfort. But why did this take place not at the very first but after these things? That it might be shown that Christ was indeed risen. This furious assailant of Christ, the man who would not believe in his death and resurrection, the persecutor of his disciples, how should this man have become a believer, had not the power of his resurrection been great indeed? HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 19.

THREE DAYS AND THEN LIGHT. BEDE: Since he had not believed that the Lord had conquered death by rising on the third day, he was now taught by his own experience of the replacement of three days of darkness by the return of the light. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 9.9.