Acts 1:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:16-25

Judas, his opportunity and his treatment of it. "Concerning Judas, which was guide … might go to his own place." The treason of Judas is related by every one of the evangelists; but his subsequent history no one of them as such even alludes to, except St. Matthew. The Evangelist St. Luke, however, here gives it, in his capacity of historian of the" Acts of the Apostles. " What he reports St. Peter as saying is not in verbal harmony with what St. Matthew says. But there is not the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:17-19

The history, character, and end of Judas Iscariot. I. An instance of SELF - DECEPTION , its power and fruits. 1. The possibility that only gradually Judas fell away—original basis of narrow-mindedness and self-indulgence leading to love of money and dishonesty. 2. The light turned into darkness. Near to Jesus, but the conscience, once perverted, becoming rapidly its own tempter, kicking against convictions, till convictions themselves become impossible, and the Master, once... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:19

Became known for was known, A.V.; that in their language that field was called Akeldama for as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, A.V. and T.R. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:19

It was known ... - , Matthew 27:8. The scene in the temple; the acts of the priests in purchasing the field, etc., would make it known; and the name of the field would preserve the memory of the guilt of Judas.Their proper tongue - The language spoken by the Jews the Syro-Chaldaic.Aceldama - This is composed of two Syro-Chaldaic words, and means literally, the field of blood. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 1:18-20

Acts 1:18-20. This man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity That is, a field was purchased therewith: for that reward, being restored by him to the chief priests, had been paid by them for the purchase of a field, which, in some sense, he might be said to have purchased, having supplied the money that paid for it. See note on Matthew 27:3-10, where the next clause also, namely, his falling headlong, and bursting asunder, (in consequence, probably, of the rope breaking wherewith... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 1:12-26

A replacement for Judas (1:12-26)After Jesus’ departure, the apostles returned to Jerusalem, where they met and prayed with various people, among them Jesus’ mother and brothers. During the time of Jesus’ ministry, his brothers had not believed in him as the Son of God, but the resurrection must have turned them to true faith (12-14; cf. John 7:5; 1 Corinthians 15:7; 1 Corinthians 15:7).Soon after, the apostles met with just over a hundred other Christians in Jerusalem to choose an apostle to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 1:19

known. Greek. gnostos. Compare App-132 . This word occurs fifteen times, ten times in Acts. unto = to. proper = own. Greek. idios. tongue = dialect. Greek. dialektos. Only in Acts: here; Acts 2:6 , Acts 2:8 ; Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:2 ; Acts 26:14 . Aceldama. See App-94 .:3 and 161. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 1:19

Acts 1:19. And it was known, &c.— Aringhius mentions a funeral inscription dug up in the Via Nomentana, by which it appears that the fate of Judas became a proverbial form of cursing. See his Roma Subterran. p. 436. The best critics seem universally to read this verse in a parenthesis, considering it not as the words of St. Peter, but of the historian. Dr. Lightfoot conjectures, that the potter's field was the place where Judas hanged himself; and that it was not only bought with the money... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:19

15-26. in those days—of expectant prayer, and probably towards the close of them, when the nature of their future work began more clearly to dawn upon them, and the Holy Ghost, already "breathed" on the Eleven ( :-), was stirring in Peter, who was to be the leading spirit of the infant community ( :-). the number . . . about an hundred and twenty—Many, therefore, of the "five hundred brethren" who saw their risen Lord "at once" ( :-), must have remained in Galilee. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 1:1-47

A. The founding of the church 1:1-2:47In his account of the founding of the Christian church Luke gave background information that ties Jesus’ giving of the Great Commission to the day of Pentecost. He showed how Jesus enabled His disciples to obey His command to evangelize the nations. read more

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