1 Peter 1:10-11 WEB

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Peter 1:11

(11) Searching.—This further explains the “inquired and searched” above; it particularises the object of the inquiry. They knew that they spoke “concerning a salvation,” but they did not know the details. The present passage is perhaps the most striking in the whole New Testament in regard to the doctrine of prophetic inspiration. Assuming that the prophets did not speak simply of their own human calculation, but somehow under the influence of the Divine Spirit, we are brought to face the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Peter 1:1-25

The Trial of Faith 1 Peter 1:6-7 What is faith? Faith is the heart setting to its seal that God is true. Faith is an appropriating grace. Faith is an apprehending grace. True faith has a quick ear, a clear eye, a ready hand, and a Divine capacity for the word of God. One is tempted to ask, Why does our heavenly Father permit the faith of His poor children to be tried? The answer is in our text, because the trial of your faith is much more 'precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:10-12

Chapter 3 THE UNITY AND GLORIOUSNESS OF THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION1 Peter 1:10-12THE message of the Gospel unlocks the treasures of Old Testament revelation. Evangelists and Apostles are the exponents of the prophets. The continuity of Divine revelation has never been broken. The Spirit which spake through Joel of the Pentecostal outpouring had spoken to men in the earlier days, to Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and David, and was now shed forth upon the first preachers of the Gospel, and bestowed... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Peter 1:1-21

Analysis and Annotations I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1-5 ) 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter 1:6-9 ) 3. As revealed in the prophets (1 Peter 1:10-12 ) 4. Exhortations to holy living (1 Peter 1:13-21 ) 1 Peter 1:1-5 As stated in the introduction, Peter writes to believing Jews in the dispersion throughout the provinces mentioned in the first verse. There is at once pointed out a... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Peter 1:10

1:10 {3} Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you:(3) He makes a difference between true faith, that is to say, that faith which only has an eye to the doctrine of the prophets and apostles, and false faith. Afterward he makes two degrees of one and the same faith, according to the manner of the various revelations, when as in deed it is but one only faith. Thirdly, he says that the preaching of the apostles... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:1-25

Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives), yet we who are Gentile believers may well recognize, that much of this is just as applicable to ourselves. We too are pilgrims and strangers, not at home on earth. The areas spoken of in v.1 are all in present-day Turkey, for Asia at that time was Asia minor, on the western end of Turkey. ... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-12

THE LIVING HOPE The opening of this epistle reminds us of Paul in its salutation, 1 Peter 1:1-2 . Here we have the author’s name Peter, his official designation an apostle of Jesus Christ, and a characterization and location of the people addressed “strangers scattered throughout” the provinces of Asia Minor named. This last phrase is rendered in the Revised Version, “sojourners of the dispersion,” which indicates that they were chiefly Jewish Christians not at home in their own land.... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 1 Peter 1:1-25

The Precious Blood of Christ 1Pe 1:19 My heart's desire has ever been to make known to men that there is no salvation but by blood, and not by blood only, but by the particular blood named in the text even the precious blood of Christ. I am afraid that in these latter days some of us have tried to find out some other word to use instead of this word blood. We shrink from it. A dainty piety has forced upon us a dainty vocabulary. As the intensity of our love has gone down, the intensity of our... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 1 Peter 1:10-12

Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (11) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:11

Searching into what time, or manner of time. The ancient prophets with longing and ardent desires, obtained to know of the Holy Ghost, the spirit of Christ, the time and the glory that followed those sufferings, by Christ's resurrection and ascension. All these were revealed to them, and they saw that they ministered things to you, not to themselves; that is, that these things they were ministers of, in prophesying about them, were not to happen in their time, but are not come to pass, as they... read more