Acts 2:32-42

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 2:41

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.And there were added — To the hundred and twenty. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 2:42

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.And they continued steadfast — So their daily Church communion consisted in these four particulars: 1. Hearing the word; 2. Having all things common; 3. Receiving the Lord's Supper; 4. Prayer. Ye diff'rent sects, who all declare, Lo here is Christ, and Christ is there; Your stronger proofs divinely give, And show me where the Christians live! read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:22-33

II. Peter’s second answer to the question of Acts 2:12: This effusion is shed forth from the crucified and risen Jesus, Acts 2:22-33. Jesus, wickedly slain, has risen, (Acts 2:22-24,) as is proved by David’s prediction, (Acts 2:25-28,) as interpreted by Peter, (Acts 2:29-31,) and confirmed by witnesses, Acts 2:32. Therefore from the risen and ascended Jesus this effusion is shed forth. Which is the full answer to the question. Sustained now, both by the Pentecostal miracle and its... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:32

32. We The men whose divine authority you have seen demonstrated in this pentecostal miracle. Witnesses See note on Luke 1:2. Our eyes can testify the accordance of fact with prophecy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:33

33. Therefore As the result of the whole. Exalted A clear testimony to the ascension. Shed forth this So that we have here Peter’s second answer to the question, (Acts 2:12,) What meaneth this? It is a manifestation sent down from the ascended Jesus Messiah. Peter now confirms the exalted Lordship of the ascended Jesus by further prophecy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:34

34. David is not ascended And it is not, therefore, David’s exaltation that the prediction announces. And as the Jewish Church admits that the Messiah, and he alone, is foretold in David’s psalms, so if it be not David, it must be Messiah. The Lord David’s Hebrew for Lord (Psalm cx) is JEHOVAH, which is God’s proper name; just as David is the proper name of the man so named. It is, therefore, an incommunicable name, belonging to the God of Israel alone. So solemnly did the ancient Jews... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:35

35. Thy footstool A figure taken from the custom of ancient conquerors of setting their feet on the heads or necks of their captured foes. So Josephus paints the Jewish hero Jonathan as treating Pudens the Roman: “Treading upon the dead general he shook his bloody sword, with his shield in his left hand, shouting many things to the army, boasting over his fallen foe, and scoffing at the Romans looking on.” But the conqueror in the present Messianic image is sitting in quiet victorious state... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:36

36. Therefore And now comes the inference in conclusion. The crucified and ascended Jesus, from whom this Pentecostal effusion has come, is Lord and Messiah; and well it is that the house of Israel should note the assured fact. Whom ye have crucified Your crucified victim is your triumphant Lord. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:37

37. Pricked Pierced to the heart. Remorse for their sin, and terror at its consequences from the triumphant Christ on high, are their struggling emotions. Even these devout Jews (Acts 2:5) discover that the prophecies of the Testament, and all the forces of the old dispensation, are against them; that the great Messiah has truly come, but that, instead of being his friends, they are the foes beneath his feet. What shall we do? We, crucifiers of the Jesus who is now the glorified Lord... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:38

38. Repent Literally, change your minds, namely, from your guilty hostility to Christ to a full faith in his name. In its full Christian sense repentance includes a perfect and saving faith in Christ. Repent, and be baptized By repentance they renounce their hostility to the crucified One, and all the sins that slew him; by baptism they are accepted into the body of his friends; and by the gift of the Holy Ghost they become truly one with the sanctified hundred and twenty,... read more

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