Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 9:6

"but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do." — Acts 9:6 (ASV)

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? What a sudden change! Before, he knew what he was going to do. He was going to do his own will and wreak his own vengeance.

But now it is, "Lord, what will you have me to do? My will is in a moment subdued. What is it you do ask of me?"

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

This was a very natural question from one who had always tried to live by doing. He had been a dealer in works up to that very moment, so he naturally cried, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"

And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

You must become a disciple, and sit at the feet of another man, of a humbler sort, and you must learn from him. Christ will never teach us by visions what we can learn by the ordinary means of instruction, nor will he work miracles where common methods may suffice.

And he trembling and astonished –

Finding that Jesus, whom he thought to be dead and buried, and those followers he was so violently opposing, was yet alive.