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Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Saul, being thoroughly humbled, and brought to resign himself wholly to God, makes this question, giving up himself as a white paper, for Christ to write what he would upon: he had thought he had done God good service, (as it is said many persecutors should think so too, Joh_16:2), but he is now powerfully brought off from his obstinacy in that persuasion.
Go into the city; Damascus, which was near at hand. Whether Christ revealed his gospel now unto him, or in the three days in which he remained blind in Damascus, Act_9:9, is not so certain; but it is certain that he was Xristo didaktov, taught immediately by Christ himself, as he testifies. Gal_1:12, and in that, without any further instruction, he was baptized, Act_9:17,18: yet many things might be left for Ananias to confirm him in; and God, by this sending of him to Ananias, would honour his own ordinance, and recommend the ministry and use of means, which are the power of God unto salvation, Rom_1:16: and thus, though God could have instructed Cornelius by the angel which appeared unto him, Act_10:3, yet he is commanded to send for Peter, and to hear from him what he ought to do, Act_9:5,6.