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ACTS 3:26 u`mw/n
The more difficult reading is the plural pronoun, which B omits,
probably for stylistic reasons. The singular auvtou/ (5 88 241 257 322
323 915) is a scribal conformation to the prec...
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Verse Acts 3:26. _UNTO YOU FIRST, GOD, HAVING RAISED UP_] As you are
the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, the _first_ offers
of salvation belong to _you_, and God thus makes them to you...
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UNTO YOU FIRST - To you who are Jews. This was the direction, that the
gospel should be first preached to the Jews, beginning at Jerusalem,
Luke 24:47. Jesus himself also confined his ministry entirel...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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A NOTABLE DEED IS DONE (Acts 3:1-10)...
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INIQUITIES. Greek. _poneria._ App-128....
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_Unto you first_ That the Jews might first receive the blessing
themselves, and then spread it abroad.
_God, having raised up_ Not spoken here of the resurrection of Jesus,
but recalling the promise...
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ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
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26. Omit Ἰησοῦν with אBCDE and _Vulg_.
26. ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΝ. That the house of Israel might first
receive the blessing, and be God’s instruments in spreading it
abroad.
ἈΝΑΣΤΉΣΑΣ. The word is used here...
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_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....
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DISCOURSE: 1746
HOLINESS THE GREATEST BLESSING
Acts 3:26. _Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent
him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his
iniquities_.
THE ground...
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UNTO YOU FIRST— Accordingly the gospel was, by the grace of our
blessed Redeemer, every where offered first to the Jews. Had it been
otherwise, humanly speaking, many who were converted in this method...
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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...
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See notes on verse 25...
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Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
UNTO YOU FIRST GOD, HAVING RAISED UP - not (as we think) 'raised up...
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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,...
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3:26 up (f-7) As ver. 22; ch. 13.33....
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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...
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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...
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UNTO YOU FIRST] and afterwards to the Gentiles (Luke 24:47; Acts 1:8).
St. Peter, as these words show, already contemplated the conversion of
the Gentiles. SON] or 'Servant': see Acts 3:13....
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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...
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UNTO YOU FIRST.... — Here again we note, even in the very turn of
the phrase as well as of the thought, an agreement with St. Paul’s
formula of the purpose of God being manifested “to the Jew first,
a...
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ὑμῖν πρῶτον ὑμῖν : again emphatic. In the words of
St. Peter we may again note his agreement with St. Paul, Acts 13:46;
Romans 1:16 (Acts 10:11), although no doubt St. Peter shared the views
of his na...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Unto you first God, having (k) raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
(k) Given to the world, or raised from the dead, and advanced to h...
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_You are the children... to you first God raising up his Son. He gives
them encouragement, that not only the promise of sending the Messias
was made to them, but that he came, and is to be preached to...
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Peter's afternoon sermon in Solomon's porch, like his forenoon sermon
on Mt. Zion, is climacteric in the enforcement of these two great
cardinal gospel truths, _i. e_., entire sanctification and the c...
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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...
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REFLECTIONS
What a sweet thought is it to my soul, that to all the crippled
faculties of my fallen nature; the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
can make me whole. Yea, his name, through faith in his n...
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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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26._He hath raised up his Son. _He gathereth out of the words of Moses
that Christ is now revealed. But the words do seem to import no such
thing; yet doth he reason fitly thus, because the blessing c...
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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,...
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UNTO YOU FIRST, GOD HAVING RAISED HIS SON JESUS,.... Which may be
understood, either of the incarnation of Christ, and his exhibition in
the flesh; which is sometimes expressed by raising him up, and...
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Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Ver. 26. _To bless you_] Ephesians 1:3 ....
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_Yea, and all the prophets_ That succeeded Moses, particularly _from
Samuel, have likewise foretold these days_ The days of the Messiah,
which, by the singular favour of God to you, ye are now so happ...
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UNTO YOU FIRST; the Jews. Isaiah 59:20; MATTHEW 10:5-6; LUKE 24:47;
JOHN 1:11....
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UNTO YOU FIRST GOD, HAVING RAISED UP HIS SON JESUS, SENT HIM TO BLESS
YOU, IN TURNING A WAY EVERY ONE OF YOU FROM HIS INIQUITIES.
That Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Messiah appointed to the Jews,
a...
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A final exhortation:...
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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...
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TO YOU FIRST, GOD, HAVING RAISED UP HIS SERVANT JESUS, SENT HIM TO
BLESS YOU, IN TURNING AWAY EVERY ONE _OF YOU_ FROM YOUR INIQUITIES. "
1. The good news came to the Jewish nation first.
1. It was p...
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Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
'UNTO YOU FIRST'-Seeing that the Jewish people had been the chosen
peop...
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22-26 Here is a powerful address to warn the Jews of the dreadful
consequences of their unbelief, in the very words of Moses, their
favourite prophet, out of pretended zeal for whom they were ready t...
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UNTO YOU FIRST; the Jews and inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are the
lost sheep of the house of Israel. St. Peter did not yet know, that
the Gentiles should be called, until he was taught it by the visi...
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Acts 3:26 you G5213 first G4412 God G2316 up G450 (G5660) His G846
Servant G3816 Jesus G2424 sent...
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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...
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“You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God
made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having...
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_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...
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Acts 3:26. UNTO YOU FIRST GOD, etc. ‘First.' St. Peter here clearly
recognises definitely that upon others as well as Israel, the glory of
the Lord has risen (Isaiah 60). Perhaps at this moment, full...
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UNTO YOU FIRST
(Hυμιν πρωτον). The Jews were first in privilege and it was
through the Jews that the Messiah was to come for "all the families of
the earth."HIS SERVANT
(τον παιδα αυτου). As in v...
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Acts 3:26
Here, in few words, is the plan proposed by our heavenly Father to
make us happy, a plan well worthy to be considered.
I. God does not secure happiness to his people by making all of them...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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-...
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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....
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THE PROMISES. ARE FOR YOU. Compare Galatians 3:8; Galatians 3:16_;
Romans 3._ The Good News of God's act in Christ was first presented to
the Jews. Notice God's Servant [Jesus Christ] would bless them...
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_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...
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_For Moses truly said unto your fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you … like unto me._
THE PROMISED PROPHET
Note--
I. The appropriateness of God revealing Himself through a hu...
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_Ye are the children of the prophets and of the covenant._
THE CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT, THE SAVIOUR’S FIRST CARE
I. All who have been dedicated to God by believing parents, are
children of the cove...
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_Unto you first God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless
you._
SENT TO BLESS YOU
I. God sent Jesus to bless us. We should have thought that after the
Jews had slain the prophets, God wo...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:25 ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH. The gospel’s
worldwide mission was already present in Peter’s message. Later,
however, he would more fully understand what that mission entailed
...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:11 Peter’s second sermon in the temple area
was primarily a call for Jews to repent of their rejection of Jesus as
Messiah.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Peter 3:9; Acts 1:8; Acts 13:26;...
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His Son Jesus. The best texts omit Jesus. Render servant for son, and
see on ver. 13....
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To bless you, by turning you from your iniquities — Which is the
great Gospel blessing....
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Here note, 1. That the offer of Jesus Christ, and eternal salvation by
him, was first made to the people of the Jews, because they were the
children of the covenant; that is, the only people in visibl...