ACTS 3:20 to.n … Cristo.n VIhsou/n On the basis of the combination of Alexandrian and Western witnesses (a B D E syrh copsa), the Committee preferred the sequence Cristo.n VIhsou/n. The alternative s...
Verse Acts 3:20. _WHICH BEFORE WAS PREACHED UNTO YOU_] Instead of προκεκηρυγμενον, _before preached_, ABCDE, fifty-three others, both the _Syriac_, all the _Arabic_, the _Armenian, Chrysostom_, and o...
AND HE SHALL SEND ... - Acts 1:1 l. Under this economy of things, he shall send Jesus Christ, that is, the Messiah, to teach people; to redeem them; to save them; to judge the world; to gather his peo...
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...
SEND. Greek. _apostello._ App-174. JESUS CHRIST. Christ Jesus. App-98. BEFORE WAS PREACHED. Greek. _prokerusso._ Compare App-121. Only here, and in Acts 13:24. But the texts read _procheirizomai,_ to...
_and he shall send_ The construction is continued from the previous verse. Read, AND THAT HE MAY SEND. In the rest of this verse both the order of the words and the reading of the _Tex. Rec_. is diff...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
ΠΡΟΚΕΧΕΙΡΙΣΜΈΝΟΝ is the reading of אABCDEP. The _Vulg_. favours the _Text. recept_. in giving ‘qui prædicatus est.’ But that sense is out of harmony with Acts 3:25 where the people are called υἱοὶ τῆς...
_RECOGNIZING THEIR DUTY TO GOD ACTS 3:19-26:_ The people were told to repent and be converted, so that their sins might be blotted out. Refreshment, joy, and peace come with the blotting out of sins....
ΈΛΘΩΣΙΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Conj._ с ΌΠΩΣ ΑΝ выражает цель, ΆΝΑΨΎΞΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΆΝΆΨΥΞΙΣ (G403) облегчение, прохлада, отдых, расслабление. _Gen._ описательный. Фраз...
REPENT YE THEREFORE, &C.— Dr. Benson paraphrases these verses thus: "As there is great ground for hope and encouragement, let me intreat of you to _repent,_ and immediately accept of Jesus as the Mess...
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 19...
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: AND HE SHALL SEND JESUS CHRIST, [ kai (G2532) aposteilee (G649)] - rather, 'And that He may send Jesus Christ' [the verb being un...
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...
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...
AND HE SHALL SEND JESUS CHRIST. — Better, as before, _and that He may send._ WHICH BEFORE WAS PREACHED UNTO YOU. — The better MSS. have, _which was fore-appointed,_ or _fore-ordained_,_ for you_....
καὶ ἀποστείλῃ, _i.e._, at His Parousia. The construction is still ὅπως ἄν with the verb. ἀποστ. is here used as in Luke 4:18; Luke 4:43, expressing that the person sent is the envoy or representative...
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...
A Call To Repentance On the basis of the great miracle worked in their midst and the undeniable fact of Christ's resurrection, Peter appealed to the multitude to turn from their sinful lives and be co...
_The times of refreshment. The time of eternal rest and happiness, &c. --- These words, you may be saved, must be understood, to make the sense complete. (Witham)_...
RETURN OF CHRIST 20. The E. V. erroneously has a semicolon between the 19th and 20th verses. The inspired original, spoken by Peter and written by Luke, has no stop whatever between these verses. Then...
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...
_PETER’S APPEAL TO THE JEWS_ ‘Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sius may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and He shall send Jesus...
20._That when _If we follow Erasmus and the old interpreter, this sentence shall be unperfect, (185) which may be made perfect, thus: _When the time of refreshing shall come, you may also enjoy this r...
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,...
AND HE SHALL SEND JESUS CHRIST,.... Or "that he may send Jesus Christ", as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it: not in person, for this regards neither his first, nor his second coming, both whic...
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Ver. 20. _Preached unto you_] Or handed to you, or put into your hands, προκεχειρισμενον ....
_Repent ye, therefore_, &c. Let it, therefore, be your principal and immediate care to secure an interest in the benefits procured by his death; and in order thereto, repent of this and all your other...
WHICH BEFORE WAS PREACHED; proclaimed in the Old Testament scriptures, and afterwards more plainly made known by himself and his disciples. But another reading of the original is, "which was before or...
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...
AND THAT HE MAY SEND JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED TO YOU BEFORE, 1. This sending is not referring to his first coming in the flesh or his future second coming. 2. Jesus will go into all the world...
and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus: 'AND THAT'-Here is another incentive for repentance. Jesus is coming again! (Acts 1:11) While they mistreated Him the firs...
19-21 The absolute necessity of repentance is to be solemnly charged upon the consciences of all who desire that their sins may be blotted out, and that they may share in the refreshment which nothin...
To remove all evils and miseries from his people; when that Sun shines all clouds and mists are scattered. This refers especially to Christ's second coming, which is here promised, to encourage us to...
Acts 3:20 and G2532 send G649 (G5661) Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 preached G4296 you G5213 before G4296 ...
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...
“Repent you therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ who has been appoi...
Acts 3:20. AND HE SHALL SEND JESUS CHRIST. See above, the note on the ‘times of refreshing,' with which period this Second Advent of the Lord must be considered as contemporaneous....
_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...
AND THAT HE MAY SEND THE CHRIST WHO HATH BEEN APPOINTED FOR YOU, EVEN JESUS (κα αποστειλη τον προκεχειρισμενον υμιν Χριστον Ιησουν). First aorist active subjunctive with οπως αν as in Acts 15:17 and...
AND HE SHALL The appeal here is national to the Jewish people as such, not individuals as in Peter's first sermon (Acts 2:38); (Acts 2:39). There those who were pricked in heart were exhorted to save...
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....
REPENT, THEN, AND TURN TO GOD. Both verbs are _active_ [not passive] and are to be understood as requiring action on their part. Compare James 4:8; John 3:14-15. This verse is the counterpart of Acts...
_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...
_Repent ye therefore and be converted._ APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION I. The Apostle Bade Men Repent And Be Converted. 1. Repent signifies, in its literal meaning, to change one’s mind. It has been translat...
_And He shall send Jesus._ THE MISSIONARY CHRIST A missionary is “one sent.” Jesus was a missionary when He came to save; He will be a missionary when He comes to judge. These missions have been loos...
_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...
2 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Acts 17:31; Hebrews 9:28;...
Which before was preached [τ ο ν π ρ ο κ ε κ η ρ υ γ μ ε ν ο ν]. But the best texts read prokeceirismenon, appointed. Compare ch. 22 14. Used by Luke only, ch. Acts 22:14; Acts 26:16. The verb origina...
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...
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....
Here St. Peter enforces his exhortation to repentance with. strong motive; namely, the certainty of Christ's coming to judge the world. God SHALL SEND JESUS, this Jesus whom we preach to you, visibly,...