Acts 4:27 - Exposition

Of a truth in this city for of a truth, A.V. Servant for child (as in Acts 3:26 ), A.V.; didst anoint for hast anointed, A.V.; peoples for people, A.V. For of a truth, etc. The saying just quoted is proved to have been the word of God by its exact fulfillment in the heathen and Jewish rulers and peoples who were concerned in the crucifixion of the Lord Christ. In this city . This is omitted in the A.V. and T.R., but found in most uncials and Fathers, and adopted by Wordsworth, Alford, Meyer, Bengel. etc. Herod . St. Luke ( Luke 23:1-12 ) is the only one of the evangelists who records the part taken by Herod in conjunction with Pontius Pilate in the condemnation of Christ. Possibly the inference may be that St. Luke was led to record it in his Gospel front knowing of this application of Psalm it. to him and Pilate. Peoples , in the plural, either because of the "many nations" ( Acts 2:5 ) from which the Jews of the dispersion came to Jerusalem, or with reference to the twelve tribes (see Genesis 28:3 , "Thou shalt be a multitude of peoples," Hebrew).