Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 2:29-31
Acts 2:29-31. Men and brethren Thus he addresses himself to them, with a title of respect; let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David Let it be no offence to you, if I tell you that David cannot be understood here as speaking of himself, but of the Messiah to come. David is here called a patriarch, a more honourable title than king, because he was the father of the royal family, and a man of great note and eminence in his generation; that he is both dead and buried, and his... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 2:25-28
Acts 2:25-28. For David speaketh concerning him Namely, Psalms 16:8-11, where see the notes. I foresaw the Lord always before my face In the Psalm, according to the Hebrew, it is, I have set the Lord always before me. Our Lord Jesus had a constant regard to his Father in his whole undertaking. He set his Father’s glory before him as his end, and his Father’s will as his rule, in every part of it. And he foresaw that his sufferings would redound abundantly to the honour of God, and would... read more