Acts 2:22-32 NLT,NIV,ESV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:30

Therefore being a prophet ,.... Who could foretell things to come, as he did many things concerning the sufferings and death of Christ, and the circumstances attending it, concerning his resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of God. So the title of his "Psalms", in the Syriac version, runs thus; the "Book of the Psalms of David, King and Prophet": and in the Arabic version, "the First Book of the Psalms of David the Prophet, King of the Children of Israel". Though the Jews ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:31

He seeing this before ,.... Or by a spirit of prophecy foreseeing it, that according to God's promise and oath, the Messiah would be raised up, and spring from his seed; and also by the same Spirit foresaw that he would suffer and die, and be laid in the grave, the pit of corruption: spake of the resurrection of Christ ; from the dead, to the sense of the following words, in Psalm 16:10 . that his soul was not left in hell : neither his separate soul in Hades, nor his body in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:32

This Jesus hath God raised up ,.... That is, from the dead, whereof we are all witnesses ; namely, of his resurrection, they having seen him, and heard him, and ate, and drank, and conversed with him since his resurrection; and which was true, not of the twelve apostles only, but of the whole company: or "we are all his witnesses"; either of God, who raised Christ from the dead; or of Christ who was raised by him; and indeed, they bore testimony to the whole of this, to Christ, and to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:22

A man approved of God - Αποδεδειγμενον , celebrated, famous. The sense of the verse seems to be this: Jesus of Nazareth, a man sent of God, and celebrated among you by miracles, wonders, and signs; and all these done in such profusion as had never been done by the best of your most accredited prophets. And these signs, etc., were such as demonstrated his Divine mission. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:23

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel - Bp. Pearce paraphrases the words thus: Him having been given forth; i.e. sent into the world, and manifested by being made flesh, and dwelling among you, as it is said in John 1:14 ; see also Acts 4:28 . Kypke contends that εκδοτον , delivered, does not refer to God, but to Judas the traitor "the Jews received Jesus, delivered up to them by Judas; the immutable counsel of God so permitting." By the determinate counsel, ὡρισμενῃ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:24

Whom God hath raised up - For, as God alone gave him up to death, so God alone raised him up from death. Having loosed the pains of death - It is generally supposed that this expression means, the dissolving of those bonds or obligations by which those who enter into the region of the dead are detained there till the day of the resurrection; and this is supposed to be the meaning of מות חבלי chebley maveth , in Psalm 116:3 , or שאול חבלי chebley sheol , in Psalm 18:5 , and in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:25

For David speaketh concerning him - The quotation here is made from Psalm 16:8-11 ; (note), which contains a most remarkable prophecy concerning Christ, every word of which applies to him, and to him exclusively. See the notes there. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:26

And my tongue was glad - In the Hebrew it is כבודי ויגל vaiyagel kebodi , "And my glory was glad:" but the evangelist follows the Septuagint, in reading και ηγαλλιασατο ἡ γλωσσα μου , what all the other Greek interpreters in the Hexapla translate δοξα μου , my glory. And what is to be understood by glory here! Why the soul, certainly, and not the tongue; and so some of the best critics interpret the place. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:27

Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell - Εις Ἁιδου , in hades, that is, the state of separate spirits, or the state of the dead. Hades was a general term among the Greek writers, by which they expressed this state; and this Hades was Tartarus to the wicked, and Elysium to the good. See the explanation of the word in the note on Matthew 11:23 ; (note). To see corruption - Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return, was a sentence pronounced on man after the fall: therefore this... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:28

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life - That is, the way from the region of death, or state of the dead and separate spirits; so that I shall resume the same body, and live the same kind of life, as I had before I gave up my life for the sin of the world. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:28

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