Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 2:23
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See notes on verse 22
ACTS 2:23 e;kdoton The addition of labo,ntej after e;kdoton in ac C3 D E P 614 _al,_ followed by the Textus Receptus, is a typical scribal expansion, introduced in order to fill out the construction...
Verse Acts 2:23. _HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL_] Bp. Pearce paraphrases the words thus: _Him having been given forth_; i.e. sent into the world, and manifested by being _made flesh...
HIM, BEING DELIVERED - ἔκδοτον ekdoton. This word, delivered, is used commonly of those who are surrendered or delivered into the hands of enemies or adversaries. It means that Jesus was surrendered...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1)._ 2. The Immediate Effect of His Presence (Acts 2:5). 3. Peter's Address (Acts 2:14). 4. The Result of the Witness ...
PETER EXPLAINS THE OCCURRENCE. Peter is, as before, the mouthpiece of the community. His speech is not addressed to foreigners but to the people of Jerusalem, and shows us, as his other speeches do, t...
THE DAY OF PENTECOST (Acts 2:1-13) We may never know precisely what happened on the Day of Pentecost but we do know that it was one of the supremely great days of the Christian Church. for on that da...
"Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by deeds of power and wonders and signs, which God, among you, did through him, as you yourselves know this man,...
BEING DELIVERED. Only here. DETERMINATE. determined. Greek. _horizo._ Here; Acts 10:42; Acts 11:29; Acts 17:26; Acts 17:31.
_him, being delivered_, &c. i.e. given up unto you, as God had decreed for the sake of man's redemption. _ye have taken, and by wicked hands_, &c. The best MSS. omit the word rendered _have taken_. Re...
23. Omit λαβόντες with אABC and _Vulg_. 23. ἜΚΔΟΤΟΝ. Given up onto you as God had decreed He should be, for the sake of man’s redemption. ΔΙᾺ ΧΕΙΡῸΣ�, _by the hand of wicked_ (lit. lawless) _men_. δι...
RECITAL OF GOD’S TESTIMONY BY THE RESURRECTION TO THE MESSIAHSHIP OF JESUS...
_THE SERMON IS PREACHED ACTS 2:16-39:_ Peter said the events of Pentecost were predicted by the prophet Joel. This is what Joel had predicted. The " last days" refers to the Christian dispensation tha...
ΏΡΙΣΜΈΝΗ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΌΡΊΖΩ (G3724) задавать границы, определять. _Perf._ подчеркивает состояние завершенности. Бог замыслил смерть Иисуса (RWP). ΒΟΥΛΉ (G1012) _dat. sing._ цель, решение, с...
HIM, BEING DELIVERED, &C.— The word εκδοτον, rendered _being delivered,_ signifies one _given_ or _surrendered up_ into the hands of an enemy; and St. Luke intimates by it the free and gracious _donat...
c. The sermon of Peter. Acts 2:14-36. Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men THE TOMB OF DAVID The whole group of buildin...
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLE...
18 Peter, not Joel, speaks of prophesying. It is an inspired break between that part of Joel's prophecy which was fulfilled at Pentecost and that which is yet future. 22 In the evangel of the kingdom...
BY WICKED HANDS] lit. 'by the hand of lawless men' (i.e. the Romans)....
THE DAY OF PENTECOST 1-13. Pentecost. On this day the risen Lord fulfilled His promise to send another Comforter (or Advocate) 'that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the...
ST. PETER'S SERMON AND ITS EFFECTS. Peter's sermon falls into four divisions: (1) Acts 2:14. Explanation of the phenomenon of speaking with tongues as a manifestation of the outpouring of the Spirit f...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 THE *HOLY SPIRIT COMES AT *PENTECOST, 2:1-4 V1 On the day called *Pentecost, the *disciples were all together, in one place. V2 Immediately,...
BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FORE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. — The adjective meets us again in St. Peter’s speech in Acts 10:42; the word for “foreknowledge in his Epistle (1 Peter 1:2), and there only in th...
τοῦτον, emphatic, ἔκδοτον delivered up, by Judas, not by God; only here in the N.T., but see instances from Josephus, also from classical Greek, in Wetstein. In Dan., Theod., Bel and the Dragon Acts 2...
THE OUTPOURED SPIRIT Acts 2:14-24 The exulting joy of these Spirit-anointed people was accounted for by some through charging them with drunkenness. Peter dismissed the charge as absurd, seeing that...
The first paragraph of this chapter records the first page of the history of the Church. It is seen as it began to form. The separated units of the disciples were fused into the new unity of the Churc...
They Crucified God's Approved Man No one could successfully deny that Jesus had worked miracles because they had been done in plain view. Those miracles should have inspired awe (wonder) in the hearts...
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and (p) foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked (q) hands have crucified and (r) slain: (p) God's everlasting foreknowledge, which can neith...
Jesus,... a man, who suffered as man, though he was both God and man. --- Delivered by the determinate decree, or counsel; to wit, by that eternal decree, that the Son of God should become man. He men...
CHRIST, DAVID'S SUCCESSOR 22-35. We find in these Scriptures that Christ was predestinated to suffer and die to redeem the world. While this is true, it was perfectly optionary with Judas, the Jews an...
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: (15) For these ar...
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...
23._Him have ye slain. _He maketh mention of the death of Christ for this cause chiefly, that the resurrection might the more assuredly be believed. It was a thing full well known among the Jews that...
Chapter 2 relates the fulfilment of this promise, in answer to the spirit of dependence manifested in their united prayers. The Spirit comes from above, in His own power, to possess and fill the dwel...
HIM BEING DELIVERED,.... By himself, according to his own will, for he gave, or delivered himself for his people; and by his Father, who spared him not, but delivered him up for us all; and by Judas,...
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Ver. 23. _And by wicked hands, &c._] _Facinus vincire civem Roma...
_Him, being delivered_ Unto death, by God his heavenly Father, who not only permitted him to be put to death, but _delivered him up for us all. Romans 8:32_; devoted and gave him up; and yet he was ap...
HIM, BEING DELIVERED; MATTHEW 24:46; MATTHEW 26:53-56; LUKE 22:22; JOHN 18:37;...
HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, YE HAVE TAKEN, AND BY WICKED HANDS HAVE CRUCIFIED AND SLAIN;...
Peter's testimony of Jesus:...
The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and empower the Church of God, which Christ had declared...
HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINED PURPOSE AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, YOU HAVE TAKEN BY LAWLESS HANDS, HAVE CRUCIFIED, AND PUT TO DEATH; 1. SERMON - Point 2 - YOU KILLED HIM 1. God has a plan - d...
him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay: 'BEING DELIVERED UP BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GO...
22-36 From this gift of the Holy Ghost, Peter preaches unto them Jesus: and here is the history of Christ. Here is an account of his death and sufferings, which they witnessed but a few weeks before....
OLBGrk; HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD: that the apostle might take away the offence of the cross of Christ, he declares unto them that he did not suffer by c...
Acts 2:23 Him G5126 delivered G1560 determined G3724 (G5772) purpose G1012 and G2532 foreknowledge G4268 God G2316 taken...
PETER'S REPLY (2:14-36). In his reply Peter reveals a combination of what he has learned through the ministry of Jesus, and what Jesus had made clear to His disciples over His resurrection appearances...
“Him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hand of lawless men (or ‘by lawless hands') did crucify and slay.” And they also knew that they themselves were...
_St. Peter's First Discourse,_ 14-36. No doubt the few discourses St. Luke has given us in the ‘Acts,' represent faithfully the various characteristic features of early apostolic preaching. They are s...
Acts 2:23. HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD. This was not man's work, St. Peter says; but all this was done strictly in accordance with God's own design _all_ h...
HIM (τουτον). "This one," resumptive and emphatic object of "did crucify and slay."BEING DELIVERED UP (εκδοτον). Verbal adjective from εκδιδωμ, to give out or over. Old word, but here only in the...
Acts 2 We have here the history of the first Christian revival. Let us trace it through, and mark at once its origin and its characteristics. I. It was ushered in by prayer. Like true children of God...
Acts 2:14 The first Gospel Sermon There are four links in St. Peter's chain of evidence. The first two, lying within the knowledge of his hearers, are briefly handled; the last two, being facts lyin...
Acts 2:20 , ACTS 2:32 The first Christian Apology I. The audience which St. Peter addressed were familiar with the main outlines of Jesus' life as recent and notorious events. We assume them also. Fo...
Acts 2:14. _But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words:_ A g...
Acts 2:1. _And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place._ The first lesson that we ought to learn from this inspired record of what happened on the day of...
We cannot too often read the story of that wondrous outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; and let us never read it without asking the Lord to manifest in our midst the fullness of the...
CONTENTS: Holy Spirit's coming on day of Pentecost. The gospel given to the Jews. Peter's great sermon on the resurrected Christ, and the conviction of the people. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit...
Acts 2:1. _The day of Pentecost._ The fiftieth day after our Lord's resurrection, and the day when the sheaf of the firstfruits was offered. Though the feast of Pentecost was but one day, yet like the...
HAD ALREADY DECIDED. God knew before Creation that man would sin, and he decreed that Jesus come and die as our "sin offering" (Ephesians 3:9-11; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Peter 1:20]. AND YOU KILLED HIM. The...
_But Peter standing up with the eleven._ THE SCENE Never was such an audience assembled as that before which this poor fisherman appeared: men of different nations, rapidly and earnestly speaking in...
_Ye men of Israel, hear these words._ PERSONAL PREACHING One of the old English worthies said that a great many sermons were like carefully written letters dropped into the post-office without any a...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:23 Although Jesus was DELIVERED UP ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITE PLAN AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, that still did not remove responsibility from those who contributed to his death. Peter...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:14 The Witness in Jerusalem. Beginning with Peter’s sermon at Pentecost and continuing through ch. Acts 5:1, the Christians’ witness is limited to the city of Jerus
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:22. MIGHTY WORKS, WONDERS, AND SIGNS.—Compare 2 Corinthians 12:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 2:
EXPOSITION ACTS 2:1 _Was now come _for _was fully come, _A.V.; _all together _for _with one accord, _A.V. and T.R. WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS NOW COME; literally, _when the day of Pentecost_—_i.e....
Now when the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1) This would be feast day following the Passover, of which Jesus was crucified. And fifty days after the Passover, the second major Jewish feast, the Feast of Pe...
1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 2:8; Acts 13:27; Acts 15:18; Acts 3:13;...
Being delivered [ε κ δ ο τ ο ν]. An adjective : given forth, betrayed. Ye have taken. The best texts omit. Wicked hands. The best texts read by the hand of lawless men. Crucified [π ρ ο σ π η ζ α ν...
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God — The apostle here anticipates an objection, Why did God suffer such a person to be so treated? Did he not know what wicked men...