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Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast. In this episode we want to continue with our

series on problem passages related to baptism. Today we'll be talking about Acts 22

verses 12 through 16. That passage is a portion of the Apostle Paul's testimony of his own

conversion experience and it reads as follows, and one anionis a devout man according to the law

well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there came to me and standing by me said to me,

brother Saul, receive your sight and at that very hour I received my sight and saw him and he said

the God of our fathers appointed you to know his will to see the righteous one and to hear a voice

from his mouth for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard

and now why do you wait rise and be baptized and wash away your sins calling on his name.

Now there are a few things to observe about this passage there's a verbal sequence going on in

here we have rise be baptized followed by wash away and call on. Now the question is what's the

relationship of these actions to one another that's important for interpretation. What we have in

the first one is a Greek participle it's an airst active participle then we have two verbs that

are also airst tense their imperatives their commands and then we have book ending those two verbs

another participle also airst and this one is in the middle voice now if you don't know Greek

all of that is meaningless but I think I can explain the significance of the succession quickly

and easily there are two issues to think about and to understand first what do the terms mean

that I just used airst tense active voice middle voice what does all that mean second what's the

relationship between these actions two participles and two verbs the verbs sandwiched between the

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