Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Acts 2:45
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
ACTS 2:45-47 The Bezan text of these verses differs in numerous details from that of the other witnesses; sometimes a reason for the alteration is apparent, but in other cases it is not clear what m...
AND SOLD - That is, they sold as much as was necessary in order to procure the means of providing for the needs of each other. POSSESSIONS - Property, particularly real estate. This word, κτήματα kte...
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 RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE BRETHREN. The four items in Acts 2:42 should be taken in two pairs; (_a)_ the believers adhered steadfastly to the apostles as their teachers and to their common life with ea...
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...
They persevered in listening to the apostles' teaching, in the fellowship. in the breaking of bread and in prayers. Awe was in every soul; and many signs and wonders were done by the apostles. All the...
TO ALL. i.e. to the believers. EVERY MAN. any one. App-123....
_And sold their possessions_, &c. For the money which resulted from such sales would be the most convenient form in which their bounty could be bestowed on those who needed it. _as every man had need_...
ΚΤΉΜΑΤΑ … ὙΠΆΡΞΕΙΣ. The _Vulg_. distinguishes the words by rendering ‘possessiones et substantias.’ The former of the Greek words seems to imply those means which were at the time actively employed in...
THE FIRST CONVERTS AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR...
_THE RESULT IS SALVATION ACTS 2:40-47:_ Only those that gladly receive the word can be saved. The one that gladly receives the word will be baptized immediately. They did not eat, sleep nor drink firs...
ΚΤΉΜΑ (G2933) пожитки, личное имущество. ΈΠΊΠΡΑΣΚΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΠΡΆΣΚΩ (G4097) продавать. Обыденный _impf._, "они продавали время от времени" (RWP). ΔΙΕΜΈΡΙΖΟΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts...
DISCOURSE: 1741 THE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS Acts 2:44. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as ev...
AND HAD ALL THINGS COMMON;— Peculiar reasons made this community of goods eligible at that time; especially as many sojourners, who had come from other parts, would justly be desirous to continue at J...
e. The unity of the church. Acts 2:43-47. Acts 2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Acts 2:44 And all that believed were together, and ha...
See notes on verse 44...
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. AND SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS, AND PARTED THEM TO ALL MEN, AS EVERY MAN HAD NEED. See the notes at A...
38 Repentance and baptism lead to a probationary pardon, which may be withdrawn. This pardon is extended by Christ as the King. Its operation is illustrated by the parable of the ten thousand talent d...
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...
THE LIFE AND WORSHIP OF THE FIRST CONVERTS. The converts were still earnest Jews, attending the services in the Temple daily (Acts 2:46), but they already formed a Church within a Church: for (1) they...
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 SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS. — The verbs throughout this description are in the imperfect tense, as expressing the constant recurrence of the act. The Greek words for “possessions” and “goods...
τὰ κτήματα … τὰς ὑπάρξεις : according to their derivation, the former word would mean that which is acquired, and the latter that which belongs to a man for the time being. But in ordinary usage κτήμα...
PENTECOSTAL DAYS Acts 2:37-47 There were no exceptions in Peter's great appeal for repentance. _Every one of you!_ he declared. “But I drove the nails into His hands.” _Every one of you!_ he insists....
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 Early Church At Work Those who were added together gave constant attention to the apostles' teaching because, as we have just seen, it was the teaching of Christ. Remember Jesus told his followers...
COMMUNITY OF GOODS 44, 45. A number of concurrent events superinduced this community of goods: (A) The suddenness of the Pentecostal revival catching thousands of those delegates from Jewish synago...
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (42) And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellows...
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...
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 SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS..... Their houses and lands, their fields and vineyards, their goods, moveable or immoveable: AND PARTED THEM TO ALL MEN; that were of their society, not to other...
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all _men_, as every man had need. Ver. 45. _And sold_] So Tyre when once converted, Isaiah 23:17,18 ....
_And all that believed were together_ Meeting as frequently as possible, even in the same place, and at the same time. Or, if this was impracticable, (their number being already, at least, three thous...
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 SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS, AND DIVIDED THEM AMONG ALL, AS ANYONE HAD NEED. 1. Are you willing to share your possessions? What would it take for you to sell land, house, car, boat (trailer,...
and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need. Points to Note: Unfortunately, some have claimed that the early Christians practiced communism. But c...
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...
Those proportions of their estate they set apart to this charitable work; whether they did arise out of the sale of house or land, called POSSESSIONS, or of any chattels or movable estate, called here...
Acts 2:45 and G2532 sold G4097 (G5707) possessions G2933 and G2532 goods G5223 and G2532 divided G1266 ...
‘And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers. And fear came on every soul. And many wonders and signs were done through the apostl...
THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IS REVEALED AS PRESENT IN THE LIFE OF THE NEW CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL (2:42-47). Now, as a result of Pentecost, we have the beginnings of the Kingly Rule of God manifested on ear...
_The Church of the First Days in Jerusalem,_ 42-47. St. Luke gives us in these few verses a vivid and a beautiful picture of the beginnings of the faith. The believers were no mere handful of men and...
Acts 2:44-45. The question of ‘community of goods in the early Church' is discussed in Excursus (B) at the end of this chapter. AND ALL THAT BELIEVED WERE TOGETHER. This means that they assembled to...
SOLD (επιπρασκον). Imperfect active, a habit or custom from time to time. Old and common verb, πιπρασκω.PARTED (διεμεριζον). Imperfect again of διαμεριζω, old verb for dividing or distributing be...
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...
You know that Peter had been preaching a plain, simple, straightforward sermon upon the death, crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He, who was once such a coward that he trembled b...
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...
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 SHARED THEIR BELONGINGS. Remember that many of the group did not live here, but had come to Jerusalem for Passover and Pentecost. Alford (Greek Testament) points out that this situation was unique...
_All that believed were together, and had all things common._ THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS, AS HERE DEPICTED I. Presented a new social development, marked-- 1. By community of goods. 2. By judicious d...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:45 On generosity among Christians, see 2 Corinthians 8:9. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:42. THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY.—Lit. _constantly applying themselves unto_, or _being engaged in_. A term characteristic of Luke (see Acts 2:46; Acts 6:4;...
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 John 3:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; 1 Timothy 6:19; 2 Corinthians 9:1;...
Possessions [κ τ η μ α τ α]. Landed property. Goods [υ π α ρ ξ ε ι ς]. Possessions in general; movables....
And sold their possessions — Their lands and houses; and goods — Their movables. And parted them to all as any one had need — To say the Christians did this only till the destruction of Jerusalem, is...
Did early Christians practice communism? PROBLEM: Some have inferred from the fact that these early Christians “sold their possessions” and had “all things in common” that they were practicing a form...