Acts 2:43

And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL - a deep awe rested on the whole outside community (so Bengel, Olshausen, Meyer, DeWette, etc.): compare Acts 5:5; Luke 1:65. It seems a mistake to apply this (as Chrysostom and Humphry do) to the believers themselves. AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE BY THE APOSTLES. The word "wonders" [ terata (G5059)] represents the miracles in the light of their supernatural character, while the word "signs" [ seemeia (G4592)] expresses the visible evidence which this gave of a divine presence with...

43._And there came. _He signifieth unto us that the show and sight of the Church was such, that it made others afraid which did not consent unto [its] doctrine; and that was done for the preserving and furthering of the Church. When there ariseth any seen all men set themselves stoutly against the same; and as novelty is odious, the Jews would never have suffered the Church of Christ to stand one minute of an hour, (144) unless the Lord had restrained them with fear as with a bridle. Furthermore, Luke noteth the manner of fear, that it was no such fear as bringeth men unto the obedience of Christ, but such as causeth men to stand in a doubt, and so, consequently, doth, as it were, so bind them hand and foot, (145) that they dare not hinder the Lord’s work. Like as there be some at this day who will willingly be ignorant of the gospel; or, at least, are so holden...

42-47 In these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it; its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence. They kept close to holy ordinances, and abounded in piety and devotion; for Christianity, when admitted in the power of it, will dispose the soul to communion with God in all those ways wherein he has appointed us to meet him, and has promised to meet us. The greatness of the event raised them above the world, and the Holy Ghost filled them with such love, as made every one to be to another as to himself, and so made all things common, not by destroying property, but doing away selfishness, and causing charity. And God who moved them to it, knew that they were quickly to be driven from their possessions in Judea. The Lord, from day to day, inclined the hearts of more to embrace the gospel; not merely professor...

Verse 43. _AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL_] Different MSS. and versions read this clause thus, _And GREAT fear and TREMBLING came_ _upon every soul in JERUSALEM_. For several weeks past they had a series of the most astonishing miracles wrought before their eyes; they were puzzled and confounded at the manner in which the apostles preached, who charged them home with the deliberate murder of Jesus Christ, and who attested, in the most positive manner, that he was risen from the dead, and that God had sent down that mighty effusion of the Spirit which they now witnessed as a proof of his resurrection and ascension, and that this very person whom they had crucified was appointed by God to be the Judge of quick and dead. They were in consequences stung with remorse, and were apprehensive of the judgments of God; and the _wonders_ and _signs_ continually wrought by the apostles were at once...

AND FEAR CAME - That is, there was great reverence or awe. The multitude had just before derided them Acts 2:13; but so striking and manifest was the power of God on this occasion, that it silenced all clamors, and produced a general veneration and awe. The effect of a great work of God’s grace is commonly to produce an unusual seriousness and solemnity in a community, even among those who are not converted. It restrains, subdues, and silences opposition. EVERY SOUL - Every person or individual; that is, upon the people generally; not only on those who became Christians, but upon the multitudes who witnessed these things. All things were suited to produce this fear: the recent crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth; the wonders that attended that event; the events of the day of Pentecost; and the miracles performed by the apostles,

EXPOSITION ACTS 2:1 _Was now come _for _was fully come, _A.V.; _all together _for _with one accord, _A.V. and T.R. WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS NOW COME; literally, _when the day of Pentecost_—_i.e._, of the fiftieth day—was in _the course of being completed. _The fiftieth day (reckoned from the end of the 16th of Nisan, on which Jesus was crucified) was actually come, but was not ended (comp. Luke 9:11). ALL TOGETHER; ὁμοῦ for ὁμοθυμαδόν_: _but ὁμοθυμαδόν—a favorite word in the Acts (Acts 4:24, note)—seems preferable to ὁμοῦ, which occurs only in St. John. IN ONE PLACE (see...

Ver. 43 AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL,.... Upon every inhabitant of Jerusalem, at least upon a great many of them; and upon all, or the greater part of them that saw, and heard these things; that heard the apostles speak with divers tongues, and Peter preach in the awful manner he did, and saw so many thousands at once embrace the Gospel of Christ, and profess his name, when it now, by reason of his crucifixion but a few weeks ago, lay under the greatest reproach and scandal; and such a number baptized in water; and also because of the miracles done by the apostles, after mentioned. The Ethiopic version is very odd, "and all animals feared the apostles": as if the very brute creatures stood in awe of them: AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE BY THE APOSTLES: the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions add, "in Jerusalem"; such as casting out devils, healing the sick, causing the lame to wal...

Acts 2:1. _And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place._ The first lesson that we ought to learn from this inspired record of what happened on the day of Pentecost is, that we cannot expect a revival until there, is unity among Christians. The Spirit of God will not visit and bless a church where there is strife. These disciples in Jerusalem «were all with one accord in one place» «in prayer and supplication,» as the fourteenth verse of the previous chapter tells us. Acts 2:2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it felled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak

ACTS 2:43 dia. tw/n avposto,lwn evgi,neto {C} It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain the original text of this passage. It can be argued, as Ropes does, that the words evn VIerousalh,m( fo,boj te h=n me,gaj evpi. pa,ntaj kai, were omitted because they seem to repeat ver. Acts 2:43. On the other hand, Haenchen supposes that the words are an expansion smoothing the way for ver. Acts 2:44. A majority of the Committee preferred to follow B (D) 614 1739 itd, gig, p*, r syrh copsa _al_....

CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1)._ 2. The Immediate Effect of His Presence (Acts 2:5). 3. Peter's Address (Acts 2:14). 4. The Result of the Witness (Acts 2:37). 5. The Gathered Company in Fellowship (Acts 2:42). This is an important chapter. The Promise of the Father was fulfilled, the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity came down to earth, to be the other Comforter. He came on that blessed day. Two things are at once apparent. He came upon the assembled believers individually, and also did a work i