Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Acts 2:9
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
ACTS 2:9 VIoudai,an Although solidly supported by external evidence (by all Greek witnesses, and almost all versional and patristic witnesses, except those mentioned below), the word VIoudai,an has f...
Verse Acts 2:9. _PARTHIANS_] Parthia anciently included the northern part of modern _Persia_: it was situated between the _Caspian Sea_ and _Persian Gulf_, rather to the eastward of both. _MEDES_] M...
PARTHIANS ... - To show the surprising extent and power of this miracle, Luke enumerates the different nations that were represented then at Jerusalem. In this way the number of languages which the ap...
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...
PARTHIARS, &C. These were Jews of the dispersion. The first four were within the limits of the Persian Empire. Elam is mentioned in Genesis 14:1.Jeremiah 49:34 (note). Daniel 8:2, &c. Mesopotamia is t...
Under all the nationalities mentioned in this and the following verse we are to understand the Jews, either by birth or conversion (as is indicated in the case of Rome), whose homes were in the countr...
9, 10. Under all the nationalities mentioned in these verses we are to understand the Jews, either by birth or conversion (as is indicated in the case of Rome), whose homes were in the countries named...
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...
ELAMITES, AND THE DWELLERS IN MESOPOTAMIA,— Bishop Cumberland takes these to be the remainder of the Jews, who had been carried captive into Assyria, first by Tiglath-Pileser, and afterwards by Salman...
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...
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, PARTHIANS ... In this and the two following verses we have probably the hist...
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...
PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES] are nations beyond the empire and influence of Rome. Here were settled the Ten Tribes of the first captivity (2 Kings 17:6). MESOPOTAMIA] The chief Jewish centre he...
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 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...
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...
Who are the Elamites? They are Jews from Elam, a country in Persia. Who are the Medians? They are Jews from Media, a great country bordering on Persia and the Caspian Sea. These are the very countries...
DOUBLE MIRACLE 5-9. On this occasion an unprecedented double miracle was wrought by the Holy Ghost on not only the speakers but all the hearers. This double miracle moved like a span of cyclones throu...
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...
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...
PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES,.... These are the words of the men continued, and not of the historian, as appears from Acts 2:10 and so the Arabic version reads, "of us Persians, Parthians, and M...
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Ver. 9. _Parthians and Medes, &c._] Those strangers of the dispersion,1 Peter...
_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 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...
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 'PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND ELAMITES'-'Luke's list comprises five groupings, as he moves...
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...
ELAMITES; descended from Elam, GENESIS 10:22, thought to be the Persians. MESOPOTAMIA; between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. JUDEA; the apostles being Galileans, spake a distinct dialect from...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For upon whom else have the universal nations believed, but upon the Christ who is already come? For whom have the nations believed,-Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and t...
Acts 2:9 Parthians G3934 and G2532 Medes G3370 and G2532 Elamites G1639 those G2532 dwelling G2730 (G5723) Mesopotamia...
‘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,...
THE REACTION OF THE HEARERS (2:5-13)....
Acts 2:9. PARTHIANS, MEDES, ELAMITES. In the Persian kingdom. It was among these peoples that Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, settled the captive ten tribes. MESOPOTAMIA. The country lying between the...
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 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 2:1. 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...
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...
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 Chronicles 19:6; 1 Peter 1:1; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Timothy 1:15; Acts 16:6
Parthians, Medes, and Elamites. Representing portions of the Persian empire. Judaea. The dialect of Galilee being different from that of Judaea. Asia. Not the Asiatic continent nor Asia Minor. In the...
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...
Judea — The dialect of which greatly differed from that of Galilee. Asia — The country strictly so called....