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Acts 2:11
Cretes and Arabians; we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Cretes and Arabians; we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Verse Acts 2:11. _CRETES_] Natives of _Crete_, a large and noted island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now called _Candia_. _ARABIANS_] Natives of _Arabia_, a well known co...
CRETES - Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean, about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about 500 miles southwest of Constantinople, and about the same distance west of Syri...
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 ...
THE EFFECT ON OUTSIDERS. The visitation has taken place in a house, but the noise is heard, not the speaking with tongues, all over the town; a crowd collects, made up of pious and thoughtful men, Jew...
So when the day of Pentecost came round, they were all together in one place; and all of a sudden there came from heaven a sound like that of a violent, rushing wind and it filled the whole house wher...
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...
CRATES. Cretans. See Titus 1:12. WONDERFUL WORKS. great things. Greek. _megaleios._ Only here and Luke 1:49. GOD. App-98....
_Cretes_ Dwellers in the well-known island which lies south of the Cyclades in the Mediterranean, now called _Candia_. Christianity may perhaps have been spread in Crete also from the converts at Pent...
ΚΡΗ͂ΤΕΣ. Natives of the well-known island which lies south of the Cyclades in the Mediterranean, and is now called _Candia_. Christianity may perhaps have been spread in Crete also from the converts o...
Acts 2:1-13. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN AT PENTECOST. EFFECT FIRST PRODUCED THEREBY ON THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM...
_THE LOST ARE GATHERED ACTS 2:5-15:_ The sound like a rushing mighty wind and the tongues parting asunder like fire resulted in the multitude coming together. "There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, d...
ΠΡΟΣΉΛΥΤΟΣ (G4339) прозелит. В Септ, это слово используется для обозначения человека, временно проживающего в Израиле, позже оно стало обозначать язычников, которые полностью приняли иудейский закон,...
b. The result of the baptism. Acts 2:5-13. Acts 2:5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. Acts 2:6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude cam...
See notes on verse 6...
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. CRETES AND ARABIANS. Crete (the modern Candia) is that large island of the Mediterranean which stretches across...
20 It seems that Judas did not pay for the freehold, but returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests. They had a consultation, and used the money to complete the purchase. The freehold w...
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,...
(9-11) PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES.... — The list that follows is characteristic of the trained historian — trained, it may be, as in the school of Strabo (see _Introduction to St. Luke_) — who...
THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD. — Better, _the great things,_ or _the majesty, of God._ The word is the same as in Luke 1:49. The word points, as has been said above, distinctly to words of praise and not...
The list which follows has been described as showing the trained hand of the historian, whilst it has also been regarded as a distinctly popular utterance in Greek style (Ramsay, _Church in the Roman...
Κρῆτες καὶ Ἄραβες : both names seem to have been added to the list as an after-thought. Even if we cannot accept Nösgen's idea that St. Luke is repeating _verbatim_ the account which he had received o...
SPEAKING IN STRANGE TONGUES Acts 2:1-13 The priests in the Temple were offering the first loaves of the new harvest, in celebration of the feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came as the first f...
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...
The Audience Reaction Moses instructed that all males be present for the feast of Pentecost, so it is no surprise that Luke would say, "Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from ever...
THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL NOT LOST 9-12. Volumes have been written, and weary eyes amid nocturnal lucubrations have toiled through the intervening ages hunting the lost tribes of Israel. It is rather...
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man h...
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...
11._The wonderful works of God. _Luke noteth two things which caused the hearers to wonder; first, because the apostles being before ignorant and private persons, (87) born in a base corner, (88) did,...
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...
CRETES AND ARABIANS,.... The former are either the same with the Cretians, Titus 1:12 the inhabitants of the island of Crete, Acts 27:7 now called Candia or Candy, which has on the north the Aegean se...
_And there were dwelling_ Or sojourning; _in Jerusalem, Jews_ Now gathered from all parts, by the peculiar providence of God; _devout_ Greek, ευλαβεις, _pious men, from every nation under heaven_ Shou...
THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD; with respect to his Son....
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...
PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND ELAMITES, THOSE DWELLING IN MESOPOTAMIA, JUDEA AND CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA, 10 PHRYGIA AND PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND THE PARTS OF LIBYA ADJOINING CYRENE, VISITORS FROM ROME, BOT...
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God. 'CRETANS'-inhabitants of the island of Crete, which contained. good size Jewish population. 'ARABIANS'-'Arabia in...
5-13 The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could h...
CRETES; such as belonged to the island of Crete, now called Candia. THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD; those things which God had wonderfully wrought, especially the resurrection of our blessed Saviour from...
Acts 2:11 Cretans G2912 and G2532 hear G191 (G5719) them G846 speaking G2980 (G5723) own G2251 tongues...
THE REACTION OF THE HEARERS (2:5-13)....
‘And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites,...
Acts 2:11. CRETES AND ARABIANS. In Crete the Jews were very numerous. Arabia, bordering on the Holy Land, of course counted among its inhabitants many Israelites. No sufficient reason, however, can be...
CRETES AND ARABIANS . These two groups "seem to have been added to the list as an afterthought" (Knowling). Crete is an island to itself and Arabia was separate also though near Judea and full of J...
TONGUES languages....
Acts 2:1 Pentecost I. The congregation in that upper room was the representative, or, as it were, the seed-germ, of the whole Catholic Church of all the centuries and of every land. For a symbol of t...
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 2:1. _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...
_And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation._ THE FIRST CONGREGATION APPEALED TO BY THE APOSTLES I. It consisted of men of many lands. The fifteen countries remind us...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:9 The list of nations covers most of the first-century Roman world, particularly areas where Jewish communities existed. At Pentecost the Christians start their worldwide witness....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:5. DWELLING AT JERUSALEM.—Not. “permanently residing” only, a sense the word usually has in Luke’s writings (Luke 1:19; Luke 4:16; Luke 13:4
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 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 17:11;...
Arabians. Whose country bordered on Judaea, and must have contained many Jews. Speak [λ α λ ο υ ν τ ω ν]. Rev., rightly, gives the force of the participle, speaking. Wonderful works [μ ε γ α λ ε ι α...
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...
Cretans — One island seems to be mentioned for all. The wonderful works of God — Probably those which related to the miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, together with the effusion...