And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. This also appears to have been strikingly fulfilled in some of the gifted servants of the Church, both male and female.
ACTS 2:18 evn tai/j h`me,raij evkei,naij {A} On the basis of the testimony of the overwhelming mass of witnesses, a majority of the Committee preferred to retain evn tai/j h`me,raij evkei,naij, expla...
ACTS 2:17-21 The quotation from Joel 2:28-32 (= LXX 3:1-5) is preserved in two forms, represented by codex Vaticanus and by codex Bezae. The former agrees almost exactly with the text of the Septuagi...
Verse Acts 2:18. _ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS_] This properly means persons of the lowest condition, such as _male_ and _female_ _slaves_. As the Jews asserted that the spirit of prophecy ne...
AND ON MY SERVANTS - The Hebrew text in Joel is “upon the servants.” The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, however, render it “on my servants.” In Joel, the prophet would seem to be enumerating the di...
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 ...
PETER EXPLAINS THE OCCURRENCE. Peter is, as before, the mouthpiece of the community. His speech is not addressed to foreigners but to the people of Jerusalem, and shows us, as his other speeches do, t...
THE DAY OF PENTECOST (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 da...
But Peter stood up with the eleven and raised his voice and said to them, "You who are Jews and you who are staying in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and listen to my words. These men are not, as...
SERVANTS. Greek. _doulos._ App-190. HANDMAIDENS. bondmaids. Greek. _doule._...
_and on my servants_, &c. The conjunctions of the original demand a stronger rendering. YEA AND, &c. _and they shall prophesy_ See Acts 19:6, where this is the result of the gift of the Spirit; cf. al...
SKETCH OF ST PETER’S SERMON. REFUTATION OF THE MOCKERS...
ΚΑΊ ΓΕ may be rendered, _Yea and_, or _And truly_. Cf. Acts 17:27 where καί γε is the correct reading. The _Vulg_. gives ‘et quidem.’ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ. Fulfilled also in the case of Agabus (Acts 11:28),...
_THE SERMON IS PREACHED ACTS 2:16-39:_ Peter said the events of Pentecost were predicted by the prophet Joel. This is what Joel had predicted. The " last days" refers to the Christian dispensation tha...
c. The sermon of Peter. Acts 2:14-36. Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men THE TOMB OF DAVID The whole group of buildin...
See notes on verse 16...
18 Peter, not Joel, speaks of prophesying. It is an inspired break between that part of Joel's prophecy which was fulfilled at Pentecost and that which is yet future. 22 In the evangel of the kingdom...
ST. PETER'S SERMON AND ITS EFFECTS. Peter's sermon falls into four divisions: (1) Acts 2:14. Explanation of the phenomenon of speaking with tongues as a manifestation of the outpouring of the Spirit f...
THE DAY OF PENTECOST 1-13. Pentecost. On this day the risen Lord fulfilled His promise to send another Comforter (or Advocate) 'that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 THE *HOLY SPIRIT COMES AT *PENTECOST, 2:1-4 V1 On the day called *Pentecost, the *disciples were all together, in one place. V2 Immediately,...
AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS... — This was the culminating point of the joyous prediction. Not on priests only, or those who had been trained in the schools of the prophets, but on slaves,...
As there was to be no limit of sex or age, so too there was no limit of condition. The word μου is not in the Hebrew, only in the LXX, but as it is found in the latter and in Acts it is argued that th...
THE OUTPOURED SPIRIT Acts 2:14-24 The exulting joy of these Spirit-anointed people was accounted for by some through charging them with drunkenness. Peter dismissed the charge as absurd, seeing that...
The first paragraph of this chapter records the first page of the history of the Church. It is seen as it began to form. The separated units of the disciples were fused into the new unity of the Churc...
Spoken By Joel Peter immediately set out to end the wild speculations as to the cause of the apostles being able to speak in languages they had never studied. First, he observed that it was just 9 a.m...
LAST DAYS 15-18. Peter proves by Joel the fulfillment of the latter-day prophecies on that notable occasion. The Edenic dispensation has come and gone, winding up with the terrible calamity of the Fal...
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: (15) For these ar...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
18._Upon my servants. _In these words the promise is restrained unto the worshippers of God. For God doth not profane his Spirit; which he should do, if he should make the stone common to the unbeliev...
Chapter 2 relates the fulfilment of this promise, in answer to the spirit of dependence manifested in their united prayers. The Spirit comes from above, in His own power, to possess and fill the dwel...
AND ON MY SERVANTS, AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS,.... In Joel it is only the servants and the handmaids; and which Kimchi interprets of strangers that should stand in the land of Israel, and serve the Israel...
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Ver. 18. _And on mine handmaids_] Souls have no sexes, Galatians 3:28 ....
_But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel_ But there is another and better way of accounting for what you see and hear. It is the accomplishment of a remarkable prophecy, in its primary a...
SHALL PROPHESY; proclaim the will of God, and make known future events. Acts 21:9-11....
THE SERMON OF PETER AND ITS EFFECT. The introduction of the sermon:...
AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR OUT IN THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT; AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY;...
The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and empower the Church of God, which Christ had declared...
_‘AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS, SAYS GOD,THAT I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH; YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY,YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS,YOUR OLD MEN SHALL D...
Yea and on My servants and on My handmaidens in those days Will. pour forth of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy. 'YEA'-'And even' (Rhm) 'MY SERVANTS'-'Even on the servants--for they are mine' (TCN...
14-21 Peter's sermon shows that he was thoroughly recovered from his fall, and thoroughly restored to the Divine favour; for he who had denied Christ, now boldly confessed him. His account of the mir...
ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS; to show what all ought to be, that hope to receive any benefit or comfort from the promises of God, either in the law or gospel, the Old or New Testament; viz. su...
Acts 2:18 And G2532 G1065 on G1909 My G3450 menservants G1401 and G2532 on G1909 My G3450 maidservants...
PETER'S REPLY (2:14-36). In his reply Peter reveals a combination of what he has learned through the ministry of Jesus, and what Jesus had made clear to His disciples over His resurrection appearances...
“And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream...
_St. Peter's First Discourse,_ 14-36. No doubt the few discourses St. Luke has given us in the ‘Acts,' represent faithfully the various characteristic features of early apostolic preaching. They are s...
Acts 2:18. AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR OUT IN THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT. This has been understood as a reference to the number of slaves and persons of the lowest rank who becam...
Acts 2 We have here the history of the first Christian revival. Let us trace it through, and mark at once its origin and its characteristics. I. It was ushered in by prayer. Like true children of God...
Acts 2:14 The first Gospel Sermon There are four links in St. Peter's chain of evidence. The first two, lying within the knowledge of his hearers, are briefly handled; the last two, being facts lyin...
Acts 2:14. _But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words:_ A g...
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...
We cannot too often read the story of that wondrous outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; and let us never read it without asking the Lord to manifest in our midst the fullness of the...
Acts 2:1. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. «And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the hous...
CONTENTS: Holy Spirit's coming on day of Pentecost. The gospel given to the Jews. Peter's great sermon on the resurrected Christ, and the conviction of the people. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit...
Acts 2:1. _The day of Pentecost._ The fiftieth day after our Lord's resurrection, and the day when the sheaf of the firstfruits was offered. Though the feast of Pentecost was but one day, yet like the...
EVEN ON MY SLAVES. God does not place "class limitations" on his Good News (See Galatians 3:28)....
_And it shall come to pass in the last days._ THE GOSPEL AGE Four things taught here determine the gospel age. I. It is connected with an extraordinary effusion of the Divine Spirit, “I will pour o...
_But Peter standing up with the eleven._ THE SCENE Never was such an audience assembled as that before which this poor fisherman appeared: men of different nations, rapidly and earnestly speaking in...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:14 The Witness in Jerusalem. Beginning with Peter’s sermon at Pentecost and continuing through ch. Acts 5:1, the Christians’ witness is limited to the city of Jerus
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:14. MEN OF JUDÆA.—Natives of Jerusalem. YE THAT DWELL AT JERUSALEM.—Foreign Jews, sojourners in the city from other parts. Acts 2:15. THESE.—Not the eleven with Peter merely...
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....
Now when the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1) This would be feast day following the Passover, of which Jesus was crucified. And fifty days after the Passover, the second major Jewish feast, the Feast of Pe...
1 Corinthians 7:21; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Acts 2:17; Colossians 3:11;...
THE RESULTS OF PENTECOST Acts 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before Christ went away He said unto the disciples, "Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be en...
And upon my servants — On those who are literally in a state of servitude....
Did Peter make a mistake in quoting Joel? PROBLEM: In Acts 2, Pentecost arrives, and the disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit. In response to criticism, Peter says that what they hear and see was...