Acts 3:22-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 3:12-26

We have here the sermon which Peter preached after he had cured the lame man. When Peter saw it. 1. When he saw the people got together in a crowd, he took that opportunity to preach Christ to them, especially the temple being the place of their concourse, and Solomon's porch there: let them come and hear a more excellent wisdom than Solomon?s, for, behold, a greater than Solomon is here preached. 2. When he saw the people affected with the miracle, and filed with admiration, then he sowed the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 3:17-26

3:17-26 "Now, brothers, I know that it was through ignorance that you did it, just as your rulers did. But God has thus fulfilled those things which he foretold by the mouths of all the prophets that his anointed one should suffer. Repent, then, and turn so that your sins may be wiped out, so that times of refreshing may come to you from God, and so that he may send Jesus Christ who has already been preached to you. It is necessary that heaven should receive him until the times when all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:22

For Moses truly said unto the fathers ,.... The Jewish fathers, the Israelites in the times of Moses. The Ethiopic version reads, "our fathers". This phrase, "unto the fathers", is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, and in the Alexandrian copy: the passages referred to are in Deuteronomy 18:15 a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you : which is not to be understood of a succession of prophets, as some of the Jewish writers F3 Jarchi in Deut. xviii. 15. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:23

And it shall come to pass, that every soul ,.... Every person, man or woman: which will not hear that prophet ; neither believe what he says, nor do what he commands; or as it is in Deuteronomy 18:19 "will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name": for he that hears not him, hearkens not to God, in whose name he speaks, and whose word he delivers, shall be destroyed from among the people ; in the Hebrew text it is, "I will require it of him"; the Hebrew word, מעמו... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:24

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel ,.... Who was, as the Jews call him, רבן של נביאים , "the master of the prophets" F12 T Hieros. Chagiga, fol. 77. 1. ; and they say, that Samuel the prophet is הנביא הראשון , "the first prophet" in the chain of the Kabbala F13 Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 9. 1. Vid. Kimchi in Psal. xcix. 6. ; and therefore is here particularly mentioned, as at the head of the prophets, and next to Moses; there being but very few prophets between... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:25

Ye are the children of the prophets ,.... Of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are called prophets, Psalm 105:15 being lineally and naturally descended from them; to them belonged the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah, and the promises of him; they were heirs of them; and of the covenant which God made with our fathers ; so the phrase בני ברית , "children of the covenant", is used by the Jews, as peculiar to themselves; See Gill on Romans 9:8 and so בר אוריין... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:22

Moses truly said unto the fathers - On this subject the reader is requested to refer to the note at Deuteronomy 18:22 . From this appeal to Moses it is evident that Peter wished them to understand that Jesus Christ was come, not as an ordinary prophet, to exhort to repentance and amendment, But as a legislator, who was to give them a new law, and whose commands and precepts they were to obey, on pain of endless destruction. Therefore they were to understand that the Gospel of Jesus Christ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:24

All the prophets from Samuel - Dr. Lightfoot observes: "We have Moses and Samuel mentioned together in this place, as also Psalm 99:6 , because there were few or no prophets between these two, 1 Samuel 3:1 , and the apparition of angels having been more frequent; but, after the decease of Phineas, it is a question whether there was any oracle by Urim and Thummim, through the defect of prophecy in the high priests, till the times of Samuel. But then it revived in Abimelec, Abiather, etc."... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:25

Ye are the children of the prophets - This is the argumentum ad hominem : as ye are the children or disciples of the prophets, ye are bound to believe their predictions, and obey their precepts; and not only so, but ye are entitled to their promises. Your duty and your interest go hand in hand; and there is not a blessing contained in the covenant which was made with your fathers but belongs to you. Now, as this covenant respected the blessings of the Gospel, you must believe in Jesus... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:22

Verse 22 22.By this argument he proveth that he goeth not about to cause them to revolt from Moses, because it is a part of the law to take heed to and obey this chief teacher. Here might a doubt arise, why Peter thought it more convenient to cite this testimony of Moses than others, seeing there were many others in readiness far more plain; but he did this for this cause, because he intreateth in this place of the authority of doctrine; and this was the best way to bring the Jews to be... read more

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