Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
That journeyed with him (oi sunodeuontev autw). Not in the older Greek, but in the Koin‚, with the associative instrumental.
Speechless (eneoi). Mute. Only here in N.T., though old word.
Hearing the voice, but beholding no man (akouontev men thv fwnhs, mhdena de qewrountev). Two present active participles in contrast (men, de). In Acts 22:9 Paul says that the men "beheld the light" (to men fwv eqeasanto), but evidently did not discern the person. Paul also says there, "but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me" (thn de fwnhn ouk hkousan tou lalountov moi). Instead of this being a flat contradiction of what Luke says in Acts 9:7 it is natural to take it as being likewise (as with the "light" and "no one") a distinction between the "sound" (original sense of fwnh as in John 3:8) and the separate words spoken. It so happens that akouw is used either with the accusative (the extent of the hearing) or the genitive (the specifying). It is possible that such a distinction here coincides with the two senses of fwnh. They heard the sound (Acts 9:7), but did not understand the words (Acts 22:9). However, this distinction in case with akouw, though possible and even probable here, is by no means a necessary one for in John 3:8 where fwnhn undoubtedly means "sound" the accusative occurs as Luke uses hkousen fwnhn about Saul in Acts 9:4. Besides in Acts 22:7 Paul uses hkousa fwnhv about himself, but hkousa fwnhn about himself in Acts 26:14, interchangeably.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 12:29
Acts 9:4
Acts 9:7
Acts 11:7
Acts 22:7
Acts 22:9
1 Corinthians 14:2
Revelation 9:13
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