Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 2:4
See notes on verse 3
See notes on verse 3
Verse Acts 2:4. _TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES_] At the building of _Babel_ the _language_ of the people was _confounded_; and, in consequence of this, they became scattered over the face of the earth:...
WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST - Were entirely under his sacred influence and power. See the notes on Luke 1:41, Luke 1:67. To be filled with anything is a phrase denoting that all the faculties...
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 ...
THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT IS FULFILLED TO THE DISCIPLES. Acts 2:1. Fifty days after Easter, ten days after the Ascension, the promise of Acts 1:4; Acts 1:8 is fulfilled and the Church starts into acti...
So when the day of Pentecost came round, they were all together in one place; and all of a sudden there came from heaven a sound like that of a violent, rushing wind and it filled the whole house wher...
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...
THE HOLY GHOST. Holy Spirit. App-101. SPEAK. Greek. _laleo._ App-121. OTHER. Greek. _heteros._ App-124. AS. even as. THE SPIRIT. App-101. GAVE. was giving. UTTERANCE. to utter or speak forth. Gre...
This verse describes a great miracle, and its simplicity of statement marks it as the record of one who felt that no additional words could make the matter other than one which passed the human unders...
Acts 2:1-13. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN AT PENTECOST. EFFECT FIRST PRODUCED THEREBY ON THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM...
4. This verse describes a great miracle, and its simplicity of statement marks it as the record of one who felt that no additional words could make the matter other than one which passed the human und...
_THE HOLY GHOST DESCENDED ACTS 2:1-4:_ Jesus had promised that the kingdom of God would come with power. (Mark 9:1) The power came with the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. The events under...
ΈΠΛΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΊΜΠΛΗΜΙ (G4130) наполнять, ΉΡΞΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G757) начинать, с _inf._ ΛΑΛΕΪ́Ν _praes. act. inf. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить. ΈΤΈΡΑΙΣ ΓΛΏΣΣΑ...
DISCOURSE: 1736 OUT-POURING OF THE SPIRIT Acts 2:1. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushin...
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST,— That is, "all the hundred and twenty." See on Acts 2:1. This effusion of the Spirit, particularlydemonstrated in the gift of tongues, was intended not on...
3. IN AN APARTMENT IN THE TEMPLE. a. The baptism in the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-4. Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. Acts 2:2 And suddenly th...
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER...
20 It seems that Judas did not pay for the freehold, but returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests. They had a consultation, and used the money to complete the purchase. The freehold w...
TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES] We should not gather from the references to the gift of tongues in St. Paul (1 Corinthians 12-14) and in the appendix to St. Mark (Mark 16:17), that the gift in question w...
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...
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,...
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. — The outward portent was but the sign of a greater spiritual wonder. As yet, though they had been taught to pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit (Luke 11...
CHAPTER 5 THE PENTECOSTAL BLESSING. Acts 2:1 IN these words we find the record of the event which completed the Church, and endowed it with that mysterious power which then was, and ever since has...
ἀποφθέγγεσθαι a word peculiar to Acts, _cf._ Acts 5:14 and Acts 26:25; in the LXX used not of ordinary conversation, but of the utterances of prophets; _cf._ Ezekiel 13:9;...
SPEAKING IN STRANGE TONGUES Acts 2:1-13 The priests in the Temple were offering the first loaves of the new harvest, in celebration of the feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came as the first f...
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...
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit John the Baptist foretold that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit. God told John the one who would administer that baptism was the one "Upon whom you see the Spiri...
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with (c) other tongues, as the (d) Spirit gave them utterance. (c) He calls them "other tongues" which were not the same as the apostl...
Began to speak divers tongues. Perhaps the apostles spoke only their own tongue, and the miracle consisted in each one's understanding it as if they spoke it in his language. (St. Gregory of Nazianzus...
WITH THE HOLY GHOST 4. In the old dispensation the Holy Ghost operated extrinsically in the people. It is the crowning glory of the gospel dispensation to be filled with the Holy Ghost, in which case...
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. I beg the Reader, while attending to what is here said of the disciples being fi...
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...
_FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT_ ‘They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.’ Acts 2:4 When our Lord manifested Himself to His disciples for the last time before His Ascension into heaven, He reminded them...
4._They began to speak _He showeth that the effect did appear presently, and also to what use their tongues were to be framed and applied, But because Luke setteth down shortly after, that strangers o...
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...
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST,.... With the gifts of the Holy Spirit; they had received the Spirit before, as a Spirit of grace, and were endowed with great gifts; but now they had grea...
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Ver. 4. _As the Spirit gave them utterance_] αποφθεγγεσθαι, to utter divine apo...
_They were all filled with the Holy Ghost_ That is, all the one hundred and twenty, as appears from Acts 2:1. At the time of this wonderful appearance, this whole company were abundantly replenished w...
FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST; received his miraculous gifts. SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES; in various other languages, which they had not before known. When Christians are united in waiting upon God by pra...
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE In the complete fulfilling of the day of Pentecost, when the day was altogether fi...
THE PENTECOST MIRACLE. The apostles filled with the Holy Spirit:...
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...
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE. 1. The apostles were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. They now had the...
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 'OTHER TONGUES'-Which are defined as real human languages in the following ver...
1-4 We cannot forget how often, while their Master was with them there were strifes among the disciples which should be the greatest; but now all these strifes were at an end. They had prayed more to...
OLBGrk; FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST; those gifts and graces which proceeded from him; the apostles having them all in a more excellent manner than formerly, and the gift of tongues superadded. WITH OTH...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V But after ten days from the ascension, which from the first Lord's day is the fiftieth day, do ye keep a great festival: for on that day, at the third hour,...
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‘And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.' This verse is very often the one emphasised when looking at Pentecost, and fo...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (2:1-4). It must be recognised what Pentecost was. It was not the day of the crowning of the King. That had already taken place in Heaven (Matthew 28:18; Mark 16:19; Dani...
Acts 2:4. AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, etc. And then those fire-tongues they saw flaming round their heads a bright and glorious aureole seemed...
WITH OTHER TONGUES (ετεραις γλωσσαις). Other than their native tongues. Each one began to speak in a language that he had not acquired and yet it was a real language and understood by those from var...
HOLY GHOST The Holy Spirit, New Testament Summary. See Note (_ See Scofield) - (Malachi 2:15). _ (1) The Holy Spirit is revealed as a divine Person. This is expressly declared (for example) (John 1...
Acts 2:4 The Birthday of the Church I. In histories of this kind we are always under a temptation to seize upon the most extraordinary feature of the story to take that as the essence of the whole. T...
Acts 2:2 The Christian's Interest in the Day of Pentecost I. At the day of Pentecost a new era did manifestly break upon the world; not an era during which human reason was to be more vast than it ha...
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 2:1 Pentecost I. The congregation in that upper room was the representative, or, as it were, the seed-germ, of the whole Catholic Church of all the centuries and of every land. For a symbol of t...
Acts 2:1. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. «And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the hous...
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...
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...
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...
_And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost._ THE HISTORIC MOVEMENT TOWARDS SPIRITUALLY The succession which is indicated by the words Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is neither nominal nor accidenta...
_And when the day of Pentecost was fully come._ THE DAY OF PENTECOST I. In the occurrences of the day of Pentecost we discover evidence of a special Divine influence. This idea is too prevalent, that...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:4 FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT fulfills what Jesus promised (see notes on 1:5; 1:8). This marked the beginning of the new covenant age, which will last until Jesus returns....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:1. PENTECOST.—So called from the date of its occurrence, the fiftieth from the second day of the Passover. FULLY COME.—Lit. _was being fulfilled_, referring to the completion...
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 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 13:8;...
Began. Bringing into prominence the first impulse of the act. See on began, ch. 1 1. With other tongues [ε τ ε ρ α ι ς γ λ ω σ σ α ι ς]. Strictly different, from their native tongues, and also differ...
THE RESULTS OF PENTECOST Acts 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before Christ went away He said unto the disciples, "Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be en...
And they began to speak with other tongues — The miracle was not in the ears of the hearers, (as some have unaccountably supposed,) but in the mouth of the speakers. And this family praising God toget...