The ninth hour — The Jews divided the time from sunrise to sunset into twelve hours; which were consequently of unequal length at different times of the year, as the days were longer or shorter. The third hour therefore was nine in the morning; the ninth, three in the afternoon; but not exactly. For... [ Continue Reading ]
At the gate of the temple, called Beautiful — This gate was added by Herod the Great, between the court of the Gentiles and that of Israel. It was thirty cubits high, and fifteen broad, and made of Corinthian brass, more pompous in its workmanship and splendour than those that were covered with silv... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Peter, Silver and gold have I none — How unlike his supposed successor! Can the bishop of Rome either say or do the same?... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter answered the people — Who were running together, and inquiring into the circumstances of the fact.... [ Continue Reading ]
The God of our fathers — This was wisely introduced in the beginning of his discourse, that it might appear they taught no new religion, inconsistent with that of Moses, and were far from having the least design to divert their regards from the God of Israel. Hath glorified his Son — By this miracle... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye renounced the Holy One — Whom God had marked out as such; and the Just One — Even in the judgment of Pilate.... [ Continue Reading ]
His name — Himself: his power and love. The faith which is by him — Of which he is the giver, as well as the object.... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, brethren — A word full of courtesy and compassion, I know — He speaks to their heart, that through ignorance ye did it — which lessened, though it could not take away, the guilt. As did also your rulers — The prejudice lying from the authority of the chief priests and elders, he here remove... [ Continue Reading ]
But God — Who was not ignorant, permitted this which he had foretold, to bring good out of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Be converted — Be turned from sin and Satan unto God. See Acts 26:20. But this term, so common in modern writings, very rarely occurs in Scripture: perhaps not once in the sense we now use it, for an entire change from vice to holiness. That the times of refreshing — Wherein God largely bestows his... [ Continue Reading ]
And he may send — The apostles generally speak of our Lord's second coming, as being just at hand. Who was before appointed — Before the foundation of the world.... [ Continue Reading ]
Till the times of the restitution of all things — The apostle here comprises at once the whole course of the times of the New Testament, between our Lord's ascension and his coming in glory. The most eminent of these are the apostolic age, and that of the spotless Church, which will consist of all t... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord shall raise you up a prophet like unto me — And that in many particulars. Moses instituted the Jewish Church: Christ instituted the Christian. With the prophesying of Moses was soon joined the effect, the deliverance of Israel from Egypt: with the prophesying of Christ that grand effect, th... [ Continue Reading ]
Every soul who will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people — One cannot imagine a more masterly address than this, to warn the Jews of the dreadful consequence of their infidelity, in the very words of their favourite prophet, out of a pretended zeal for whom they rejected C... [ Continue Reading ]
These days — The days of the Messiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant — That in, heirs of the prophecies. To you properly, as the first heirs, belong the prophecies and the covenant. Genesis 12:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
To bless you, by turning you from your iniquities — Which is the great Gospel blessing.... [ Continue Reading ]