Verse Acts 4:11. _THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NOUGHT OF YOU_ _BUILDERS_] By your rejection and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, you have fulfilled one of your own prophecies, Psalms 118:22; and, a...
THIS IS THE STONE - This passage is found in Psalms 118:22. It is quoted, also, by our Saviour as applicable to himself. See the notes on Matthew 21:42. The ancient Jews applied this to David. In the...
CHAPTER 4 __ 1. Their Arrest (Acts 4:1). 2. The Result of the Testimony (Acts 4:4). 3. Peter and John before the Rulers and Elders (Acts 4:5). 4. Peter's bold witness ...
A full meeting of the Sanhedrin takes place in the morning. Annas and Caiaphas are known to us; the former was high priest, A.D. 6- 15; Caiaphas, his son-in-law, A.D. 18- 34. John and Alexander are ot...
ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...
So on the next day it happened that the rulers and the elders and the scribes were assembled in Jerusalem, together with Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all those who be...
THE STONE, &C.. reference to Psalms 118:22. SET AT NOUGHT. treated with contempt. Greek. _exoutheneo._ Compare Luke 18:9; Luke 23:11. OF. by Gr _hupo._ App-104. THE HEAD, &C. Literall
_This_(i.e. Jesus) _is the stone which was set at nought of you_[_the builders_ There is the definite article in the original. The council are fitly called the builders, for on them depended the whole...
Acts 4:1-12. FIRST ARREST OF THE APOSTLES. THEIR HEARING AND DEFENCE...
ΟἸΚΟΔΌΜΩΝ instead of οἰκοδομούντων with אABD. The _Vulg_. has a participle. 11. ΟΥ̓͂ΤΟΣ, _this_, viz. Jesus. ὙΦ' ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΤΩ͂Ν ΟἸΚΟΔΌΜΩΝ. Render, _of you the builders_. The article has its proper force....
_THE APOSTLES IN COURT ACTS 4:5-12:_ The apostles were examined by the rulers, the chief priests, the Scribes, and elders of the people. They were examined with the question, "By what power, or by wha...
ΈΞΟΥΘΕΝΗΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΈΞΟΥΘΕΝΈΩ (G1848) презирать, пренебрегать кем-л. или чем-л. как бесполезным или не имеющим ценности (LN, 1:763; GELTS, 162). ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part...
THIS IS THE STONE, &C.— St. Peter's mentioning Christ as the _head of the corner,_ naturally led to the thought of a spiritual and eternal salvation, which it was Christ's principal design to bring in...
BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN. Acts 4:5-22. Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; Acts 4:6 and Annas the high priest was t...
11, 12. Realizing the advantage which he had now gained, Peter pushes his adversaries into still closer quarters, by adding: (11) "_This is the stone which was despised by you builders, which has beco...
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NOUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS, WHICH IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER....
5 This was the supreme spiritual judiciary in Israel. It comprised the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests, the scribes, and elders, said to have been in all seventy-one. The names of the chie...
4:11 stone. (d-20) Lit. 'head of corner,' see Psalms 118:22 ....
ARREST OF PETER AND JOHN 1-22. Arrest of Peter and John. Peter's speech before the Sanhedrin. The proceedings of the Apostles displeased the authorities, (1) because they taught the people (Acts 4:2)...
THIS IS THE STONE] In Psalms 118:22 the stone is Israel, which the heathen builders of the world's great empires reject and despise, but which nevertheless is destined to play the chief part in the wo...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ARREST PETER AND JOHN, 4:1-4 V1 Peter and John were speaking to the people. As they spoke, the priests, the captain of th...
THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NOUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS. — Better, _of you, the builders._ The members of the Council to whom Peter spoke had heard those words (Psalms 118:22) quoted and interpreted...
οὗτος : “He, as in R.V. All E.V [152] previously translated it “this,” referring it to ὁ λίθος, but in the next verse a person is directly spoken of, not under the metaphor of a stone, and the pronoun...
THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME Acts 4:1-12 The Sadducees are particularly mentioned, because they were the agnostics of the age, and had no belief in the unseen and eternal. The fact of our Lord's resurre...
Opposition to apostolic preaching and work seems to have originated mostly from the influence of the Sadducees. The preaching of the apostles contradicted all the cardinal elements in the Sadducean ph...
Their Day In Court Luke's description makes it clear that Peter and John were brought before the Jewish Sanhedrin the next day. Ash says, "It was the high court of seventy members, plus the high pries...
JESUS ONLY 11, 12. Can we not learn this truth? There is salvation in none but Jesus. If you differ from this you are an idolater. Our Jesus needs no help to save a soul. Some worship a water-god; ot...
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, (9) If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is mad...
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...
11._This is the stone. _He confirmeth by testimony of Scripture that it is no new thing that the ringleaders (208) of the Church, which have glorious titles given them, and have the chief room in the...
In a word, they are invited to return by repentance, and enjoy all the promises made to Israel. The Messiah Himself should return from heaven to establish their blessing. The whole nation is here addr...
THIS IS THE STONE,.... That is, this Jesus of Nazareth, by whose name the lame man was made whole, is that stone spoken of in Psalms 118:22 by whom is meant the true Messiah, comparable to a stone, f...
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Ver. 11. _You builders_] Such you should be, and profess to be, _sed aedificatis in Gehennam, _ ye b...
_Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost_ That moment, according to the promise of his now glorified Master, (Matthew 10:20; Mark 13:11,) which was upon this occasion remarkably verified; _said unto th...
THE STONE; PSALMS 118:22; ISAIAH 28:16; MATTHEW 21:42....
Peter's speech of defense:...
THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NAUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS, WHICH IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER....
The religious leaders were greatly agitated by the public speaking of the apostles, and the Sadducees particularly, for one of their cardinal doctrines was the denial of any resurrection. They were ev...
THIS IS THE _‘STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED BY YOU BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE._ ' 1. The corner stone we talk about today is a stone near one front corner of a building to identify w...
He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner. 'HE IS THE STONE'-This is. quotation from Psalms 118:22. Jesus Himself had used this Scripture again...
5-14 Peter being filled with the Holy Ghost, would have all to understand, that the miracle had been wrought by the name, or power, of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, whom they had crucified; and thi...
Alluding to PSALMS 118:22, in which there is a prophecy of what was now fulfilled: see ACTS 2:23. YOU BUILDERS; so by their office they were, and ought to have been so indeed, and are here so called,...
11, 12. Realizing the advantage which he had now gained, Peter pushes his adversaries into still closer quarters, by adding: (11) "_ This is the stone which was despised by you builders, which has bec...
Origen Commentary on John Book I Whosoever falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust." And Luke writes in Acts:[118]...
Acts 4:11 This G3778 is G2076 (G5748) stone G3037 which G3588 rejected G1848 (G5685) by G5259 you...
“He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner.” Then to support his case Peter indirectly cites Scripture. The citation is from Psalms 118:22. It...
THE HEARING BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (4:1-22)....
Acts 4:11. THIS IS THE STONE, etc. The accusation of awful mistake with which he charges the judges of Israel, of dishonouring what God had so highly honoured, St. Peter repeats by boldly applying to...
_St. Peter's Defence,_ 8-12. ‘Compare Peter a few days since in the palace of the high priest, thrice denying his Master from fear of prison and death, and now brought forth from prison, and confessi...
OF YOU THE BUILDERS (υφ' υμων των οικοδομων). The experts, the architects, had rejected Jesus for their building (Psalms 118:22) as Jesus himself had pointed out (Matthew 21:42; Luke 21:17). This ve...
Acts 4:1 Look at this passage: (1) from the side of the Jewish leaders; (2) from the side of the Apostles. I. On the side of the Jewish leaders there was (1) illiberality; (2) shortsightedness; (3)...
Acts 4 Before the Council From this section of Apostolic history we may draw the following practical inferences: I. We may learn that if we are Christ's disciples we may expect to encounter antagon...
Peter and John were summoned before the priests to give an account for having healed the lame man, and for having preached in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. In the eighth verse we read: Acts 4:8. The...
CONTENTS: The first persecution. Peter's address to the Sanhedrin. Preaching in Jesus' name forbidden. Christians again filled with the Spirit. State of the Church at Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Jesu...
Acts 4:1. _The captain of the temple_ was the captain of the watch, and saw that the levites performed their duty day and night. He beat them and set fire to their garments, if he found them asleep on...
THE STONE. Jesus quotes this same scripture _in_ Matthew 21:42-46. See notes there....
_And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them._ THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE was an officer of a sort which Luke mentions in the plura...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:5. THEIR RULERS.—Not of the new converts or of the apostles, but of the people; hence the Sanhedrists. ELDERS,—Heads of families, SCRIBES,—Teachers of the law, and CHIEF PRI...
EXPOSITION ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. Only here and Acts 5:24, and Luke 22:4, Luke 22:52 in the plural some
Now as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection...
1 Peter 2:6; 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 4:1; Acts 20:26;...
FIGHTING AGAINST GOD Acts 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fourth chapter of Acts continues the account of the third chapter, bringing to a climax the healing of the lame man. The rulers and elders and sc...
Psalms 118:22....