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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 2:5-13

We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe, I. The great concourse of people that there was now at Jerusalem, it should seem more than was usual at the feast of pentecost. There were dwelling or abiding at Jerusalem Jews that were devout men, disposed to religion, and that had the fear of God before their eyes (so the word properly signifies), some of them proselytes of righteousness, that... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 2:1-13

We may never know precisely what happened on the Day of Pentecost but we do know that it was one of the supremely great days of the Christian Church. for on that day the Holy Spirit came to the Christian Church in a very special way. Acts has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit; so before we turn to detailed consideration of its second chapter let us take a general view of what Acts has to say about the Holy Spirit. The Coming Of The Spirit It is perhaps unfortunate that we so... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 2:1-13

2:1-13 So when the day of Pentecost came round, they were all together in one place; and all of a sudden there came from heaven a sound like that of a violent, rushing wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And tongues, like tongues of fire, appeared to them, which distributed themselves among them and settled on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them the power of utterance. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:7

And they were all amazed, and marvelled ,.... They were struck with surprise, they were as it were out of themselves, like persons in an ecstasy, not knowing what could be the cause or meaning of this: saying one to another ; the phrase "one to another", is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, and so it is in the Alexandrian copy: behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans ? rude, unpolished, and unlearned men; who had never been brought up in any school of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:8

And how hear we every man in our own tongue ,.... Them speaking, as the Ethiopic version reads; that is, we everyone of us hear one or another, speak in the same language, wherein we were born ; our native language; for though these men were Jews by descent, yet were born and brought up in other countries, which language they spake; and not the Hebrew, or Syriac, or Chaldee. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:7

Are not all these - Galileans? - Persons who know no other dialect, save that of their own country. Persons wholly uneducated, and, consequently, naturally ignorant of those languages which they now speak so fluently. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:8

How hear we every man in our own tongue - Some have supposed from this that the miracle was not so much wrought on the disciples as on their hearers: imagining that, although the disciples spoke their own tongue, yet every man so understood what was spoken as if it had been spoken in the language in which he was born. Though this is by no means so likely as the opinion which states that the disciples themselves spoke all these different languages, yet the miracle is the same, howsoever it be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-13

The unity of the Spirit. If, with the idea of unity in our minds, we read this description of the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church, we cannot but be struck with the manner in which that great idea is exhibited and illustrated. I. There is first THE LOCAL UNITY OF THE CHURCH . They were all together in one place. Many in number, but all of that many come together; drawn by one common impulse to merge their separate existences, their various pursuits, their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-13

The coming of God in power. The ascended Savior was about to come in mighty power to the disciples. They were in Jerusalem, "waiting for the promise of the Father;" doubtless they had no anticipation of the way in which that promise would be fulfilled, and must have been struck with the utmost awe and wonder when they found themselves wrought upon with such Divine energies. Our thought is directed to— I. THE MANIFESTED PRESENCE OF GOD . God revealed his presence through the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-41

The day of Pentecost, and its immediate gifts. " And when the day of Pentecost … And the same day there were added about three thousand souls." The day of Pentecost is emphatically the complement of the great days of the New Testament. The visible glories of this day are the fitting sequel, the almost natural sequel, of the more veiled glories of certain days that had preceded it. The heavenly luster and music of the day of incarnation, unique as they were, reached the eye and ear of but... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 2:5-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 2:1-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 2:1-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 2:1-41

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