Acts 2:26-47 WEB

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:40

Acts 2:40Save yourselves from this untoward generation.Much exhortation is neededConcerning salvation, we need only preach one sermon by way of explanation, but men need ten sermons by way of exhortation. (C. H. Spurgeon.)Save yourselvesLet the word of God be like one who, during the great flood in America, rode on a white horse down the valley, crying out, as he rode along, “To the hills, to the hills, to the hills!” The waters were following fast behind him, and he would have the people... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:41-42

Acts 2:41-42Then they that gladly received his word were baptized.Marks of having received the Word1. A public profession of faith.2. A desire to fulfil all the ordinances laid upon them by our Lord.3. A desire to unite in fellowship with other believers.4. Continuance in the Word.5. Prayer and study of the “Word in order to growth in grace.6. Conclusion: In proportion as those who receive the Word are faithful, will godly fear fall upon others. (S. S. Times.)Anxious for baptismMr. A. Wills,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:44-47

Acts 2:44-47All that believed were together, and had all things common.The primitive Christians, as here depictedI. Presented a new social development, marked--1. By community of goods.2. By judicious distribution to the needy. Poor people had, of course, been relieved before, but not in the systematic way which is here seen to mark the beneficence of the early Church.3. By a new and separate place of worship. Religious exercises were conducted “at home” as well as in the Temple. Thus the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:47

Acts 2:47Praising God, and having favour with all the people.At once godly and popularI. Piety. “Praising God.” Behold the natural history of regeneration. Those who are bought with a price are constrained to glorify God. Thanksgiving is a constituent element of prayer without which it is ineffectual. In the case of these converts as in the case of Israel redeemed from Egypt it was spontaneous, and could not be restrained. The gratitude that comes through prompting is not gratitude.II.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:26

26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Ver. 26. My tongue ] Heb. "my glory." With the tongue bless we God, James 3:9 , which is the best way of ennobling it. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:27

27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Ver. 27. My soul in hell ] That is, my body in the grave. So Revelation 20:13 . Death and hell, i.e. the grave, are cast into the burning lake. To the three degrees of our Saviour’s humiliation, are answerable the three degrees of his exaltation: to his death, his resurrection; to his burial, his ascension; to his abode a while in the grave, his sitting at the right hand of his heavenly... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:28

28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Ver. 28. Thou hast made known ] i.e. Thou givest me experience, or thou hast made me partaker of. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:29

29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Ver. 29. His sepulchre is with us ] Repaired, likely, when the city was rebuilt. See Matthew 23:29 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:30

30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; Ver. 30. Out of the fruit of his loins ] That is, out of the Virgin Mary; the son of whose womb Christ was, being hewn without hands out of that mountain, Daniel 2:45 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:31

31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Ver. 31. Neither his flesh ] It was a pious error in those good women that embalmed his body to preserve it from corruption. read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:40

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:41-42

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:44-47

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 2:47

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:26

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:27

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:28

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:29

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:30

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 2:31

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