Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 3:18
But God — Who was not ignorant, permitted this which he had foretold, to bring good out of it.
But God — Who was not ignorant, permitted this which he had foretold, to bring good out of it.
Verse Acts 3:18. _BUT THOSE THINGS - HE HATH SO FULFILLED._] Your ignorance and malice have been overruled by the sovereign wisdom and power of God, and have become the instruments of fulfilling the...
BUT THOSE THINGS - To wit, those things that did actually occur, pertaining to the life and death of the Messiah. HAD SHOWED - Had announced, or foretold. BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS PROPHETS - That is,...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Healing of the lame Man (Acts 3:1)._ 2. Peter's address and appeal (Acts 3:12). The lame man, forty years old, at the gate called Beautiful is the type of the moral condition of t...
SPEECH OF PETER. Acts 3:12. The Facts. The idea and arrangement of the speech closely resemble that of Acts 2:14; it exhibits the style of controversy with the Jews. The hearers are addressed as men o...
A NOTABLE DEED IS DONE (Acts 3:1-10)...
"Now, brothers, I know that it was through ignorance that you did it, just as your rulers did. But God has thus fulfilled those things which he foretold by the mouths of all the prophets that his anoi...
BEFORE HAD SHEWED. announced before. Here, Acts 3:24. Act 7:52. 2 Corinthians 9:5. Compare App-121. CHRIST. App-98. The texts read "His Christ". HATH... FULFILLED. fulfilled. Greek. _pleroo_. App-125...
_by the mouth of all his prophets_, &c. The best MSS. connect the pronoun _his_with the next clause. Read, BY THE MOUTH OF ALL THE PROPHETS THAT HIS CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER. The purpose of the whole of t...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ after ΧΡΙΣΤῸΝ with אABCDE. _Vulg_. ‘Christum suum.’ 18. ΤῸΝ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. Render, _by the mouth of all the prophets that His Christ should suffer_. The purpose of the whole of the Scripture...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
_AN OPPORTUNITY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL ACTS 3:11-18:_ The man that was healed to Peter and John. He knew that they were instruments through whom God had worked. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of...
ΠΡΟΚΑΤΉΓΓΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΚΑΤΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G4293) сообщать заранее, полностью объявлять заранее (RWP). ΠΑΘΕΪΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) страдать. Эпэкз. _inf._ объясняет послание проро...
ON SOLOMON'S PORCH ACTS 3:11-26. Acts 3:11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon'S, greatly wondering. Acts 3:12 And when Peter sa...
See notes on verse 17...
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. BUT THOSE THINGS, WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHOWED BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HI...
13 The word "Boy" is here used because it, like its Greek equivalent, may be used both of a child and a servant. The common version renders it _ servant_, _ child _ and _ son_. Each of these, however,...
THE LAME MAN HEALED 1-26. Healing of the lame man. Speech of Peter. St. Luke here singles out from the multitude of 'wonders and signs done by the Apostles' (Acts 2:43), the one which led to the firs...
PETER'S SPEECH. Peter affirms that the miracle has been performed through faith in Jesus, who, though crucified, was truly the Messiah, as was shown by His Resurrection. The Apostle takes a lenient vi...
SHOULD SUFFER] see especially Psalms 22 Isaiah 50:6 and Isaiah 53:5; Daniel 9:26. Our Lord Himself found intimations of His sufferings in the OT.,...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 PETER CURES A MAN WHO CANNOT WALK, 3:1-10 V1 One day, Peter and John were going to the *Temple to pray. This was at three o’clock in the afte...
THOSE THINGS, WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHEWED. — As in Acts 1:16; Acts 2:23, we have again an echo of the method of prophetic interpretation which the Apostles had learnt from their Lord....
δὲ : a further mitigation; whilst they were acting in their ignorance, God was working out His unerring counsel and will. πάντων τῶν προφητῶν : not to be explained by simply calling it hyperbolic. The...
SEARCHING WORDS Acts 3:11-26 Peter's sermon was delivered in the eastern colonnade of the Temple. It derived its name probably from the fact that Solomon's Porch had originally occupied that site. Th...
The men at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple is the illustration of a constant fact: approximation to God is a habit of humanity in its need. Mendicants are not often found at the doors where an infide...
Preaching In Solomon's Porch With the now healed lame man holding onto each of them, it was natural that a crowd would gather around Peter and John. Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit to speak, seize...
But those things, which God before had shewed (e) by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. (e) Though there were many Prophets, yet he speaks only of one mou...
_“But those things which he proclaimed through the mouth of all his prophets that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.”_ We see from this verse how the Jews and the Romans in their condemnatio...
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. (18) But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he h...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
18._And God _Hereby it appeareth more plainly to what end he made mention of ignorance; for when he telleth them that God hath accomplished those things which he had foretold, he doth so touch their o...
In Chapter 3 the Spirit addresses His testimony to the people by the mouth of Peter. God still acted in patience towards His foolish people, and with more than patience. He acts in grace towards them,...
BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHOWED,.... In the Scriptures of the Old Testament, concerning the betraying of the Messiah, and his sufferings and death, with the various causes, concomitants,...
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Ver. 18. _By the mouth of all his prophets_] All the prophets spake bu...
_And now, brethren_ A word full of courtesy and compassion; _I wot_ That is, _I know:_ here he speaks to their hearts; _that through ignorance ye did it_ Which lessened, though it could not annihilate...
CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER; PSALMS 16:10-11; Psalms 22:15-18; Psalms 69:1-21; ISAIAH 53:3-10;...
BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHOWED BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS PROPHETS, THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER, HE HATH SO FULFILLED. Peter had preached the Law to the assembled Jews; he had shown them the...
The basis of the present facts in prophecy:...
In this great work the apostles were not dealing only with large numbers. As Peter and John went to the temple, not to speak, but at the mid afternoon hour of prayer, they contacted a man lame from hi...
BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD FORETOLD BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS PROPHETS, THAT THE CHRIST WOULD SUFFER, HE HAS THUS FULFILLED. 1. God kept His promise. See 2 Corinthians 1:20. When God makes a promise, y...
But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. 'THAT HIS CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER'-(Luke 24:46). Thus anyone who reads or studies...
12-18 Observe the difference in the manner of working the miracles. Our Lord always spoke as having Almighty power, never hesitated to receive the greatest honour that was given to him on account of...
The prophets did all speak the same things, as if they had spoken out of one MOUTH, as they did speak by one Spirit. God used the ignorance of some, and the malice of others, for his own holy ends: an...
Acts 3:18 But G1161 which G3739 God G2316 foretold G4293 (G5656) by G1223 mouth G4750 all G3956 His...
“But the things which God showed beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.” However, he makes it clear that they should not have been ignorant. Let...
PETER'S SECOND PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE (3:12-26). As in his first message Peter first refers back to the past, but this time it is to ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob', the ones who had receive...
Acts 3:18. In reference to God, the sin of Israel, consisting in the rejection and murder of Messiah, may be forgiven, in so far as it at the same time involved the fulfilment of the divine decree mad...
Acts 3:17. AND NOW, BRETHREN. Notice the apostle no longer gravely, though courteously, addresses the people as ‘men of Israel' (Acts 3:12), but affectionately as ‘brethren.' THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID...
_Second Discourse of St. Peter,_ 12-26. This second sermon of St. Peter is even more briefly reported than the first. Compared with the summary Divine wisdom has preserved for us in the ‘Acts,' it mus...
FORESHEWED (προκατηγγειλεν). First aorist active indicative of προκαταγγελλω, late compound to announce fully beforehand. Only twice in the N.T. in the critical text (Acts 3:18; Acts 7:52).THAT HIS...
Acts 3:12 The speech of Peter may be regarded in four aspects: I. As showing the false method of looking at human affairs. "As though through our own power of holiness we had made this man to walk....
Acts 3 The Lame Man Healed We are reminded by this incident: I. That there are some things more valuable than money. Peter with his gift of healing was of infinitely greater service to this lame ma...
Acts 3:1. _Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour._ Peter and John seem to have been linked in closest friendship. Peter had been brought back...
You remember, dear friends, how Peter denied his Lord in the time of his trial. Now notice what a change was wrought in him after the Holy Spirit had fallen upon him on the day of Pentecost. We have o...
CONTENTS: The lame man healed at the temple gate. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter, John, lame man, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Pilate, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: The hand of compassion, extended by Spirit-...
Acts 3:1. _Peter and John went into the temple at the hour of prayer._ Some read, At the same time Peter and John went into the temple, intimating that this was the afternoon of the day of pentecost....
GOD LONG AGO ANNOUNCED. It is a paradox that God _knows_ before it happens and announces through the prophets, yet gives every man _free will_ and allows him to choose....
_All the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering._ SOLOMON’S PORCH The porch--or better, portico or cloister--was outside the temple, on the eastern sid...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:18 See notes on 2:23; 3:13–16; 3:17; 4:27....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:11 Peter’s second sermon in the temple area was primarily a call for Jews to repent of their rejection of Jesus as Messiah. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 3:18. ALL HIS HOLY PROPHETS.—Best taken as a collective phrase for the prophets as a whole. Most of the Books of the Old Testament foretell distinctly the sufferings and death...
EXPOSITION ACTS 3:1 _Were going up _for _went up together, _A.V. and T.R. PETER AND JOHN. The close friendship of these two apostles is remarkable. The origin of it appears to have been their partner...
Shall we turn to Acts, the third chapter. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour (Acts 3:1). The day started at six o'clock in the morning, su...
1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Corinthians 15:4; 1 Peter 1:10; 1 Peter 1:11;...
FULFILLED PROPHECIES VERIFY UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES Acts 3:17 _; Acts 13:27_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Scripture chosen for today, is worth our thought. The first Scripture was spoken by Peter, the sec...