17 So Ananias departed and entered into the house, and placing his[a] hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight and got up and[b] was baptized, 19 and after[c] taking food, he regained his strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus several days.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 9:17 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Acts 9:18 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“got up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Acts 9:19 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking”) which is understood as temporal