Acts 2:22-32 NLT,NIV,ESV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:29

Let me speak freely - of the patriarch David - In Midris Tillin, it is said, in a paraphrase on the words, my flesh shall rest in hope, "Neither worm nor insect had power over David." It is possible that this opinion prevailed in the time of St. Peter, and, if so, his words are the more pointed and forcible; and therefore thus applied by Dr. Lightfoot: "That this passage, Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, etc., is not to be applied to David himself appears in that I may confidently aver... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:30

According to the flesh, he would raise up Christ - This whole clause is wanting in ACD, one of the Syriac, the Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, and Vulgate; and is variously entered in others. Griesbach rejects it from the text, and Professor White says of the words, " certissime delenda ," they should doubtless be expunged. This is a gloss, says Schoettgen, that has crept into the text, which I prove thus: The Syriac and Vulgate, the most ancient of the versions, have not these words. The... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:31

That his soul was not left in hell - The words ἡ ψυχη αυτου , his soul, are omitted by ABCD, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and Vulgate. Griesbach has left them out of the text, and Professor White says again, certissime delenda . The passage may be thus read: "He spake of the resurrection of Christ, that he was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption." For the various readings in this and the preceding verse, see Griesbach. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:32

Whereof we all are witnesses - That is, the whole 120 saw him after he rose from the dead, and were all ready, in the face of persecution and death, to attest this great truth. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:22

Verse 22 22.Jesus of Nazareth Now doth Peter apply unto his purpose the prophecy of Joel; namely, that the Jews may thereby know that the time of restoring was present; and that Christ was given them for this purpose. For this promise was no otherwise to be fulfilled, save only by the coming of the Mediator. And this is the right use of all those gifts which we have by Christ, whilst that they bring us unto Christ, as unto a fountain. But he cometh hither by little and little. For he doth not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:23

Verse 23 23.Him have ye slain. He maketh mention of the death of Christ for this cause chiefly, that the resurrection might the more assuredly be believed. It was a thing full well known among the Jews that Christ was crucified. Therefore, in that he rose again, it is a great and wonderful token of his Divine power. In the mean season, to the end he may prick their consciences with the feeling of sin, he saith that they slew him; not that they crucified him with their own hands, but because the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:24

Verse 24 24.Having loosed the sorrows of death. By the sorrows of death I understand some farther thing than the bodily sense or feeling. For those which duly consider the nature of death, because they hear that it is the curse of God, must needs conceive that God is angry in death. Hence cometh marvelous horror, wherein there is greater misery than in death itself. Furthermore, Christ died upon this occasion that he might take upon him our guiltiness. That inward fear of conscience, which made... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:25

Verse 25 25.The resurrection, (110) which was both declared and witnessed by certain and evident testimonies, and which might also have been gathered out of the continual doctrine of the prophets, was to be proved to the Jews as some new and strange thing. And no marvel. For we see that although Christ had oftentimes beat (111) the same into his disciples’ heads, yet did they profit but a little. And yet did they retain certain principles of true doctrine, which might have made a way for them... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:26

Verse 26 26.For this my heart rejoiced Joy of the soul, gladness of the tongue, and quietness of all the whole body, do ensue upon sure hope and confidence; for unless men be quite past feeling, (118) they must needs be careful and sorrowful, and so, consequently, miserably tormented, so long as they feel themselves destitute of the help of God. But that sure trust which we repose in God doth not only deliver us from carefulness, (119) but doth also replenish our hearts with wonderful joy (and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:27

Verse 27 27.Because thou shalt not leave To leave the soul in hell is to suffer the same to be oppressed with destruction. There be two words used in this place, both which do signify the grave amongst the Hebricians. Because שאול, doth signify to require, I suppose it is called סול, because death is insatiable; whence also cometh that translation, Hell hath enlarged her soul. Again, they set open their mouth like hell. And because the latter שחת, is derived and set for corruption, or... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:32

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:27

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