Acts 3:18-19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 3:19-21

Acts 3:19-21. Repent ye, therefore, &c. Let it, therefore, be your principal and immediate care to secure an interest in the benefits procured by his death; and in order thereto, repent of this and all your other iniquities; and be converted That is, be turned from sin and Satan to God, (chap. Acts 26:20,) in the way of sincere and universal obedience. The term, converted, so common in modern writings, rarely occurs in Scripture, at least in the sense we now use it, for an entire... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 3:1-26

3:1-5:42 RAPID GROWTH AND GREAT POPULARITYPreaching in the temple (3:1-26)On one of their visits to the temple, Peter and John healed a crippled beggar. The man had been lying at the gate that led from the outer public court to the inner courts where only Jews were allowed, but as soon as he was healed he followed the apostles into the temple, jumping and praising God (3:1-10).After prayer the three men returned to the public court, where they found that a crowd of curious onlookers had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 3:18

before had shewed = announced before. Here, Acts 3:24 ; Act 7:52 . 2 Corinthians 9:5 . Compare App-121 . Christ. App-98 . The texts read "His Christ". hath . . . fulfilled = fulfilled. Greek. pleroo . App-125 . See Acts 1:16 ; Acts 2:2 , Acts 2:28 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 3:19

Repent. Greek. metanoeo. App-111 . be converted = turn ye again (to Me). Jeremiah 3:7 , Jeremiah 3:14 , Jeremiah 3:22 , &c that, &c. Literally for (Greek. eis. App-104 .) the blotting out. sins. Greek. hamartia. App-128 . blotted out = wiped out, the blotting out. Here, Colossians 2:14 .Revelation 3:5 ; Revelation 7:17 ; Revelation 21:4 when = in order that. Greek. hopos. Occurs fifteen times in Acts, and always expresses a purpose. Compare Acts 8:15 , Acts 8:24 ; Acts 9:2 ,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 3:19

Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.On Pentecost (Acts 2:38), Peter had preached: (1) repent ye, (2) and be baptized, (3) for the remission of sins, and (4) ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Exactly the same four factors are in view here: (1) repent, (2) turn again, (3) that sins may be blotted out, and (4) that refreshing from the Lord's presence would follow. It is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 3:19-21

Acts 3:19-21. Repent ye therefore, &c.— Dr. Benson paraphrases these verses thus: "As there is great ground for hope and encouragement, let me intreat of you to repent, and immediately accept of Jesus as the Messiah; that your sins may be blotted out, and the happy and refreshing times may come upon you from the presence of the Lord. I speak not [merely] concerning the safety and consolation which the embracing Christianitywill at present afford you; but [also] of the approach of that... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 3:18

18. that Christ—The best manuscripts read, "that His Christ." should suffer—The doctrine of a SUFFERING MESSIAH was totally at variance with the current views of the Jewish Church, and hard to digest even by the Twelve, up to the day of their Lord's resurrection. Our preacher himself revolted at it, and protested against it, when first nakedly announced, for which he received a terrible rebuke. Here he affirms it to be the fundamental truth of ancient prophecy realized unwittingly by the Jews... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 3:19

19. when the times of refreshing shall come—rather, "in order that the times of refreshing may come"; that long period of repose, prosperity and joy, which all the prophets hold forth to the distracted Church and this miserable world, as eventually to come, and which is here, as in all the prophets, made to turn upon the national conversion of Israel. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 3:1-31

1. External opposition 3:1-4:31Opposition to the Christians’ message first came from external sources, particularly the leaders of Judaism. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 3:11-26

Peter’s address in Solomon’s colonnade 3:11-26As is often true in Acts, an event led to an explanation (cf. ch. 2)."It seems strange, at first glance, that in his narrative Luke would place two such similar sermons of Peter so close together. But his putting the Pentecost sermon in the introductory section of Acts was evidently meant to be a kind of paradigm of early apostolic preaching-a paradigm Luke seems to have polished for greater literary effectiveness. As for the Colonnade sermon, Luke... read more

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