Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Acts 3:24
Yea, and all the prophets (h) from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
(h) At which time the kingdom of Israel was established.
Yea, and all the prophets (h) from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
(h) At which time the kingdom of Israel was established.
Verse Acts 3:24. _ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL_] Dr. Lightfoot observes: "We have _Moses_ and _Samuel_ mentioned together in this place, as also Psalms 99:6, because there were few or no prophets bet...
ALL THE PROPHETS - That is, the prophets in general. It may be said of the prophets generally, or of all of them, that they have foretold these things. This expression is not to be pressed as if we we...
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...
SAMUEL. Samuel was the first great prophet and spokesman of God after Moses. THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER. those next in order. Greek. _kathexes._ Only used by Luke, here, Acts 11:4; Acts 18:23.Luke 1:3;...
_all the prophets from Samuel_ To other prophecies St Peter only makes a general reference. We learn (_Midrash Shemuel_, c. 24) that Samuel was called by the Jews "Rabban," the chief and teacher of th...
ΚΑῚ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΟἹ ΠΡΟΦΗ͂ΤΑΙ. To other prophecies St Peter only makes a general reference. We learn (_Midrash Shemuel_, c. 24) that Samuel was called by the Jews the Rabban, the chief and teacher, of th...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
_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....
ΚΑΘΕΞΉΣ (G2517) по порядку, в последовательности. ΈΛΆΛΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 3:21. ΚΑΤΉΓΓΕΙΛΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ КАΤΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G2605) провозглашать....
FROM SAMUEL, &C.— _All the prophets from Samuel, and as many as have spoken afterwards._ Or, _And as many of the following ones as have spoken._...
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...
24. Not content with bringing to bear the testimony of Moses, Peter adds to it the combined voices of all the prophets: (24) "_And, indeed, all the prophets, from Samuel, and those following in order,...
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER, A...
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...
ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL. — Samuel _is_ named, both as being the founder of the school of the prophets, and so the representative of the “goodly fellowship,” and as having uttered one of the earli...
Σαμουὴλ : On Samuel as the founder of the prophetic schools and the pattern of all later prophets, see Hamburger, _Real-Encyclopädie des Judentums_, i., 6, p. 854; “Prophet,” _cf. Midrash Shemuel_, c....
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...
_“And all the prophets from Samuel and successively so many as spoke also proclaimed these days.”_ How significantly true! The second coming of Christ is a most prominent thing with all the prophets i...
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...
24._And all _When as he saith that all the prophets do with one consent send their scholars unto Christ, that appeareth more plainly hereby, which I said, that the commendation of the gospel is contai...
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,...
YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL,.... Who was, as the Jews call him, רבן של נביאים, "the master of the prophets" l; and they say, that Samuel the prophet is הנביא הראשון, "the first prophet" in t...
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ver. 24. _All the prophets_] The prophet Isaiah especially, who speaks...
_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...
SAMUEL; 2 SAMUEL 7:16; 2Sa 7:25; 2 Samuel 7:29....
A final exhortation:...
YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER, AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN, HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF THESE DAYS....
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...
23_ AND IT SHALL BE_ _THAT EVERY SOUL WHO WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE._ '__ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as...
Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. 'SAMUEL'-The next significant or well-known prophet following Moses. In additi...
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...
Though there were some prophets betwixt Moses and Samuel, yet they were but such as prophesied in some particular exigences and cases; and in Samuel's days _the word of the Lord was precious, _ or rar...
24. Not content with bringing to bear the testimony of Moses, Peter adds to it the combined voices of all the prophets: (24) " And, indeed, all the prophets, from Samuel, and those following in order,...
Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments Now, after the death of Moses and Joshua, and after the judges, arose David, who was deemed worthy of bearing the name of father of the Saviour himself; and he first ga...
Acts 3:24 and G2532 G1161 all G3956 prophets G4396 from G575 Samuel G4545 and G2532 follow G2517 as...
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...
“Yes and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.” But it is not only Moses who had spoken of these days which have now come. It...
Acts 3:22-24. These verses are explanatory of the general statement of Acts 3:21, ‘Which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets.' They first speak of Moses and his famous words relating...
_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...
Acts 3:24. ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL, AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER. Of the prophets between Moses and the days of Samuel, we possess few recorded sayings. Samuel is mentioned as the founder of the s...
FROM SAMUEL (απο Σαμουηλ). Schools of prophets arose in his time, few before him (1 Samuel 3:1)....
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...
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....
ALSO ANNOUNCED THESE PRESENT DAYS. The promise of the Old Testament was fulfilled in Christ, and Peter identifies this fulfillment with the time they were right then living in! Compare Acts 2:16-17....
_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...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:24 SAMUEL was considered the next prophet after Moses. THESE DAYS. The coming of Christ and the new covenant age that began at Pentecost....
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. ⇐...
_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...
1 Samuel 2:18; 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Samuel 3:20; Acts 13:20; Acts 3:19;...
These days — The days of the Messiah....
That is, "All the prophets from Moses to Samuel, and particularly Isaiah, the evangelical prophet, did fortell the coming and kingdom of the Messias, the special mercies to them that believe on him, a...