Acts 2:1-4
THE PENTECOST MIRACLE. The apostles filled with the Holy Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PENTECOST MIRACLE. The apostles filled with the Holy Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME, THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED ALL THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM CLOVEN TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE, AND IT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE In the complete fulfilling of the day of Pentecost, when the day was altogether filled up, according to Hebrew manner of speaking, when it had altogether come. As Luke used the word,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE DWELLING AT JERUSALEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD, THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER AND WERE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE THAT EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND MARVELED, SAYING ONE TO ANOTHER, BEHOLD, ARE NOT ALL THESE WHICH SPEAK GALILEANS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN?... [ Continue Reading ]
PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES, AND THE DWELLERS IN MESOPOTAMIA, AND IN JUDEA, AND CAPPADOCIA, IN PONTUS, AND ASIA,... [ Continue Reading ]
PHRYGIA, AND PAMPHYLIA, IN EGYPT, AND IN THE PARTS OF LIBYA ABOUT CYRENE, AND STRANGERS OF ROME, JEWS AND PROSELYTES,... [ Continue Reading ]
CRETES AND ARABIANS; WE DO HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR TONGUES THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED, AND WERE IN DOUBT, SAYING ONE TO ANOTHER, WHAT MEANETH THIS?... [ Continue Reading ]
OTHERS, MOCKING, SAID, THESE MEN ARE FULL OF NEW WINE. Since this was the festival of Pentecost. one of the feasts upon which all the Jews were to appear at Jerusalem, Exodus 23:13; Deuteronomy 16:1, there were people from all parts of the world living, or sojourning for the time, in Jerusalem. Many... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SERMON OF PETER AND ITS EFFECT. The introduction of the sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THESE ARE NOT DRUNKEN, AS YE SUPPOSE, SEEING IT IS BUT THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THIS IS THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS, SAITH GOD, I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR OUT IN THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT; AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN HEAVEN ABOVE AND SIGNS IN THE EARTH BENEATH; BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED IN TO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON IN TO BLOOD, BEFORE THAT GREAT AND NOTABLE DAY OF THE LORD COME;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. While the gift of tongues was being transmitted to the apostles, it was not that they were in a state of ecstasy, making them detached from the affairs going on about them. They were perfectly sane and ration... [ Continue Reading ]
YE MEN OF ISRAEL, HEAR THESE WORDS: JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN APPROVED OF GOD AMONG YOU BY MIRACLES AND WONDERS AND SIGNS, WHICH GOD DID BY HIM IN THE MIDST OF YOU, AS YE YOURSELVES ALSO KNOW:... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter's testimony of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
HIM, BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, YE HAVE TAKEN, AND BY WICKED HANDS HAVE CRUCIFIED AND SLAIN;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP, HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BEHOLDEN OF IT. Peter here launches forth into his sermon proper, to testify of Christ as David's Son and David's Lord. He addresses his hearers as Israelites, as members of the covenant nation of G... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR DAVID SPEAKETH CONCERNING HIM, I FORESAW THE LORD ALWAYS BEFORE MY FACE, FOR HE IS ON MY RIGHT HAND, THAT I SHOULD NOT BE MOVED;... [ Continue Reading ]
The proof from David:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE DID MY HEART REJOICE, AND MY TONGUE WAS GLAD; MOREOVER, ALSO MY FLESH SHALL REST IN HOPE;... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THOU WILT NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL, NEITHER WILT THOU SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; THOU SHALT MAKE ME FULL OF JOY WITH THY COUNTENANCE. Peter had stated to the Jews that Jesus had been delivered according to the foreknowledge of God and that God had raised Him up from the dead. Since these two statements required proof, the apostle proc... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND HIS SEPULCHER IS WITH US UNTO THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The application of the prophecy:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, BEING A PROPHET, AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAD SWORN WITH AN OATH TO HIM THAT OF THE FRUIT OF HIS LOINS, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, HE WOULD RAISE UP CHRIST TO SIT ON HIS THRONE,... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, SEEING THIS BEFORE, SPAKE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THAT HIS SOUL WAS NOT LEFT IN HELL, NEITHER HIS FLESH DID SEE CORRUPTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS JESUS HATH GOD RAISED UP, WHEREOF WE ALL ARE WITNESSES. Peter, in this section of his sermon, uses the intimate and confidential address "men and brethren. " He wants to make the people feel that it is in their interest to hear him out in his argument. He had quoted a passage from a Psalm which... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, BEING BY THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD EXALTED, AND HAVING RECEIVED OF THE FATHER THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY GHOST, HE HATH SHED FORTH THIS WHICH YE NOW SEE AND HEAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of Peter's sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS; BUT HE SAITH HIMSELF, THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD, SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND,... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTIL I MAKE THY FOES THY FOOTSTOOL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE LET ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL KNOW ASSUREDLY THAT GOD HATH MADE THAT SAME JESUS WHOM YE HAVE CRUCIFIED BOTH LORD AND CHRIST. A powerful peroration or conclusion! After his testimony concerning the resurrection of Jesus there was one more point which Peter was bound to make, namely, the proof... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, AND SAID UNTO PETER AND TO THE REST OF THE APOSTLES, MEN AND BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO?... [ Continue Reading ]
The immediate effect of the sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED, EVERY ONE OF YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PROMISE IS UNTO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF, EVEN AS MANY AS THE LORD, OUR GOD, SHALL CALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITH MANY OTHER WORDS DID HE TESTIFY AND EXHORT, SAYING, SAVE YOURSELVES FROM THIS UNTOWARD GENERATION. Peter had closed his sermon with the words: Both Lord and Christ has God made this Jesus whom you crucified. These concluding words, coming after his powerful presentation of truth, could not... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THEY THAT GLADLY RECEIVED HIS WORD WERE BAPTIZED; AND THE SAME DAY THERE WERE ADDED UNTO THEM ABOUT THREE THOUSAND SOULS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of the sermon in the establishment and progress of the Church:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES' DOCTRINE AND FELLOWSHIP, AND IN BREAKING OF BREAD, AND IN PRAYERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL; AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE BY THE APOSTLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THAT BELIEVED WERE TOGETHER, AND HAD ALL THINGS COMMON;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS, AND PARTED THEM TO ALL MEN, AS EVERY MAN HAD NEED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY, CONTINUING DAILY WITH ONE ACCORD IN THE TEMPLE, AND BREAKING BREAD FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, DID EAT THEIR MEAT WITH GLADNESS AND SINGLENESS OF HEART,... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAISING GOD, AND HAVING FAVOR WITH ALL THE PEOPLE. AND THE LORD ADDED TO THE CHURCH DAILY SUCH AS SHOULD BE SAVED. The Word of God which had been preached with such power and followed up with such earnest exhortations, did not remain without fruit. By the working of the same Spirit whose miraculous... [ Continue Reading ]