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Verse Acts 2:11. _CRETES_] Natives of _Crete_, a large and noted
island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now
called _Candia_.
_ARABIANS_] Natives of _Arabia_, a well known co...
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CRETES - Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean,
about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about 500 miles southwest
of Constantinople, and about the same distance west of Syri...
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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 ...
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THE EFFECT ON OUTSIDERS. The visitation has taken place in a house,
but the noise is heard, not the speaking with tongues, all over the
town; a crowd collects, made up of pious and thoughtful men, Jew...
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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...
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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...
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CRATES. Cretans. See Titus 1:12.
WONDERFUL WORKS. great things. Greek. _megaleios._ Only here and Luke
1:49.
GOD. App-98....
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_Cretes_ Dwellers in the well-known island which lies south of the
Cyclades in the Mediterranean, now called _Candia_. Christianity may
perhaps have been spread in Crete also from the converts at Pent...
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ΚΡΗ͂ΤΕΣ. Natives of the well-known island which lies south of
the Cyclades in the Mediterranean, and is now called _Candia_.
Christianity may perhaps have been spread in Crete also from the
converts o...
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Acts 2:1-13. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN AT PENTECOST. EFFECT FIRST PRODUCED
THEREBY ON THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM...
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_THE LOST ARE GATHERED ACTS 2:5-15:_ The sound like a rushing mighty
wind and the tongues parting asunder like fire resulted in the
multitude coming together. "There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,
d...
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b.
The result of the baptism. Acts 2:5-13.
Acts 2:5
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every
nation under heaven.
Acts 2:6
And when this sound was heard, the multitude cam...
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See notes on verse 6...
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Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God.
CRETES AND ARABIANS. Crete (the modern Candia) is that large island
of the Mediterranean which stretches across...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD. — Better, _the great things,_ or _the
majesty, of God._ The word is the same as in Luke 1:49. The word
points, as has been said above, distinctly to words of praise and not...
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(9-11) PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES.... — The list that
follows is characteristic of the trained historian — trained, it may
be, as in the school of Strabo (see _Introduction to St. Luke_) —
who...
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Κρῆτες καὶ Ἄραβες : both names seem to have been
added to the list as an after-thought. Even if we cannot accept
Nösgen's idea that St. Luke is repeating _verbatim_ the account which
he had received o...
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The list which follows has been described as showing the trained hand
of the historian, whilst it has also been regarded as a distinctly
popular utterance in Greek style (Ramsay, _Church in the Roman...
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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...
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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...
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The Audience Reaction
Moses instructed that all males be present for the feast of Pentecost,
so it is no surprise that Luke would say, "Now there were dwelling in
Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from ever...
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THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL NOT LOST
9-12. Volumes have been written, and weary eyes amid nocturnal
lucubrations have toiled through the intervening ages hunting the lost
tribes of Israel. It is rather...
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And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the
multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man
h...
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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...
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11._The wonderful works of God. _Luke noteth two things which caused
the hearers to wonder; first, because the apostles being before
ignorant and private persons, (87) born in a base corner, (88) did,...
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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...
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CRETES AND ARABIANS,.... The former are either the same with the
Cretians, Titus 1:12 the inhabitants of the island of Crete, Acts 27:7
now called Candia or Candy, which has on the north the Aegean se...
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_And there were dwelling_ Or sojourning; _in Jerusalem, Jews_ Now
gathered from all parts, by the peculiar providence of God; _devout_
Greek, ευλαβεις, _pious men, from every nation under heaven_
Shou...
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THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD; with respect to his Son....
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CRETES AND ARABIANS; WE DO HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR TONGUES THE
WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD....
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The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:...
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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...
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PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND ELAMITES, THOSE DWELLING IN MESOPOTAMIA, JUDEA
AND CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA, 10 PHRYGIA AND PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND
THE PARTS OF LIBYA ADJOINING CYRENE, VISITORS FROM ROME, BOT...
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Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty
works of God.
'CRETANS'-inhabitants of the island of Crete, which contained. good
size Jewish population.
'ARABIANS'-'Arabia in...
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5-13 The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much
hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom
the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could
h...
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CRETES; such as belonged to the island of Crete, now called Candia.
THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD; those things which God had wonderfully
wrought, especially the resurrection of our blessed Saviour from...
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Acts 2:11 Cretans G2912 and G2532 hear G191 (G5719) them G846 speaking
G2980 (G5723) own G2251 tongues...
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‘And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all
these that speak Galileans? And how hear we, every man in our own
language wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites,...
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THE REACTION OF THE HEARERS (2:5-13)....
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Acts 2:11. CRETES AND ARABIANS. In Crete the Jews were very numerous.
Arabia, bordering on the Holy Land, of course counted among its
inhabitants many Israelites. No sufficient reason, however, can be...
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CRETES AND ARABIANS
. These two groups "seem to have been added to the list as an
afterthought" (Knowling). Crete is an island to itself and Arabia was
separate also though near Judea and full of J...
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TONGUES
languages....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation._
THE FIRST CONGREGATION APPEALED TO BY THE APOSTLES
I. It consisted of men of many lands. The fifteen countries remind us...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:9 The list of nations covers most of the
first-century Roman world, particularly areas where Jewish communities
existed. At Pentecost the Christians start their worldwide witness....
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 2:5. DWELLING AT JERUSALEM.—Not. “permanently residing”
only, a sense the word usually has in Luke’s writings (Luke 1:19;
Luke 4:16; Luke 13:4
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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....
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles
17:11;...
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Arabians. Whose country bordered on Judaea, and must have contained
many Jews.
Speak [λ α λ ο υ ν τ ω ν]. Rev., rightly, gives the force of
the participle, speaking.
Wonderful works [μ ε γ α λ ε ι α...
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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...
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Cretans — One island seems to be mentioned for all. The wonderful
works of God — Probably those which related to the miracles, death,
resurrection, and ascension of Christ, together with the effusion...