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Acts 3:23
And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS - It shall be, or shall occur. This is not the usual word rendered “it shall come to pass.” It is a word commonly expressing “futurity,” but here it conveys the notion of “ob...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Healing of the lame Man (Acts 3:1)._ 2. Peter's address and appeal (Acts 3:12). The lame man, forty years old, at the gate called Beautiful is the type of the moral condition of t...
SPEECH OF PETER. Acts 3:12. The Facts. The idea and arrangement of the speech closely resemble that of Acts 2:14; it exhibits the style of controversy with the Jews. The hearers are addressed as men o...
A NOTABLE DEED IS DONE (Acts 3:1-10)...
"Now, brothers, I know that it was through ignorance that you did it, just as your rulers did. But God has thus fulfilled those things which he foretold by the mouths of all the prophets that his anoi...
SOUL. App-110. DESTROYED. utterly destroyed. Greek. _exolothreuomai._ Only here. Frequently in Septuagint. About eighty times as rendering of _karath_, cut off. See Genesis 17:14.Exodus 30:33; Exodus...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
_RECOGNIZING THEIR DUTY TO GOD ACTS 3:19-26:_ The people were told to repent and be converted, so that their sins might be blotted out. Refreshment, joy, and peace come with the blotting out of sins....
ΈΞΟΛΕΘΡΕΥΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΞΟΛΕΘΡΕΎΩ (G1842) разрушать, окончательно уничтожать; перфектное использование предложного сочетания....
DISCOURSE: 1745 MOSES AND CHRIST COMPARED IN THEIR PROPHETICAL OFFICE Acts 3:22. _Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me...
A PROPHET SHALL THE LORD, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:22. The word _hear,_ Acts 3:23 signifies to _obey._ One cannot imagine a more masterly address than this, to warn the J...
ON SOLOMON'S PORCH ACTS 3:11-26. Acts 3:11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon'S, greatly wondering. Acts 3:12 And when Peter sa...
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And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT EVERY SOUL, WHICH WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET,...
13 The word "Boy" is here used because it, like its Greek equivalent, may be used both of a child and a servant. The common version renders it _ servant_, _ child _ and _ son_. Each of these, however,...
THE LAME MAN HEALED 1-26. Healing of the lame man. Speech of Peter. St. Luke here singles out from the multitude of 'wonders and signs done by the Apostles' (Acts 2:43), the one which led to the firs...
PETER'S SPEECH. Peter affirms that the miracle has been performed through faith in Jesus, who, though crucified, was truly the Messiah, as was shown by His Resurrection. The Apostle takes a lenient vi...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 PETER CURES A MAN WHO CANNOT WALK, 3:1-10 V1 One day, Peter and John were going to the *Temple to pray. This was at three o’clock in the afte...
SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE. — The original has it, “I will require it of him” (Deuteronomy 18:19). The words which St. Peter substitutes are as an echo of a familiar phrase which occurs...
ἔσται δὲ, _cf._ Acts 2:17. The expression, which is not in the Hebrew. seems to call attention to what follows. ἐξολεθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ : “shall be utterly destroyed” (ἐξ), R.V. In the LXX, Deute...
SEARCHING WORDS Acts 3:11-26 Peter's sermon was delivered in the eastern colonnade of the Temple. It derived its name probably from the fact that Solomon's Porch had originally occupied that site. Th...
The men at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple is the illustration of a constant fact: approximation to God is a habit of humanity in its need. Mendicants are not often found at the doors where an infide...
A Call To Repentance On the basis of the great miracle worked in their midst and the undeniable fact of Christ's resurrection, Peter appealed to the multitude to turn from their sinful lives and be co...
Which will not hear that prophet. St. Peter's argument is this. If disobedience to the ordinances of God by the voice of Moses, was punishable with death, how much more severe will be the punishment o...
TRIBULATION 23. _“And it shall come to pass that whosoever may not hear that prophet will be cut off from the people.” “May hear”_ in this verse is in the subjunctive mood, revealing contingency, whic...
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. (18) But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he 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...
23._Every soul. _Here, by a most grievous punishment against the rebellious, the authority of all the prophets, but most of all of Christ, is established; and that for good causes. For seeing there is...
In Chapter 3 the Spirit addresses His testimony to the people by the mouth of Peter. God still acted in patience towards His foolish people, and with more than patience. He acts in grace towards them,...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT EVERY SOUL,.... Every person, man or woman: WHICH WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET; neither believe what he says, nor do what he commands; or as it is in Deuteronomy 18:19 ...
And it shall come to pass, _that_ every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Ver. 23. _Shall be destroyed_] As it justly befell the refractory Jews; wrath...
_For Moses_ The first of these prophets, whose writings have come down to us; _truly said unto the fathers_ In his early days; _A prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you_ Namely, in after times; _of...
WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET; will not obey the Messiah....
In this great work the apostles were not dealing only with large numbers. As Peter and John went to the temple, not to speak, but at the mid afternoon hour of prayer, they contacted a man lame from hi...
23_ AND IT SHALL BE_ _THAT EVERY SOUL WHO WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE._ '__ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as...
And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. 'SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE'-Notice that the O.T. clear...
22-26 Here is a powerful address to warn the Jews of the dreadful consequences of their unbelief, in the very words of Moses, their favourite prophet, out of pretended zeal for whom they were ready t...
EVERY SOUL; that is every one. HEAR THAT PROPHET; that is believe and obey him. SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE; as those that disobeyed Moses were destroyed, many perishing by strange and su...
Acts 3:23 And G1161 be G2071 (G5704) every G3956 soul G5590 who G3748 G302 will G191 not G3
“And it shall be, that every soul who will not listen responsively to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.” For God had warned severely, that if anyone did not listen to Him...
PETER'S SECOND PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE (3:12-26). As in his first message Peter first refers back to the past, but this time it is to ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob', the ones who had receive...
Acts 3:23. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS (ἔσται δέ). These words do not occur in the passage quoted by St. Peter. Every soul which will not hear that prophet. The apostle had been excusing the people who...
Acts 3:22-24. These verses are explanatory of the general statement of Acts 3:21, ‘Which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets.' They first speak of Moses and his famous words relating...
Acts 3:22-23. The quotation is from the LXX. Version (Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:18-19). The words of the original are not exactly given, but the paraphrase of St. Peter faithfully reproduces t...
_Second Discourse of St. Peter,_ 12-26. This second sermon of St. Peter is even more briefly reported than the first. Compared with the summary Divine wisdom has preserved for us in the ‘Acts,' it mus...
THAT PROPHET (του προφητου εκεινου). Emphasizes the future prophet as on "him" (αυτου) before "hearken." They had refused to "hearken" to Moses and now, alas, many had refused to "hearken" to Chris...
Acts 3:12 The speech of Peter may be regarded in four aspects: I. As showing the false method of looking at human affairs. "As though through our own power of holiness we had made this man to walk....
Acts 3 The Lame Man Healed We are reminded by this incident: I. That there are some things more valuable than money. Peter with his gift of healing was of infinitely greater service to this lame ma...
You remember, dear friends, how Peter denied his Lord in the time of his trial. Now notice what a change was wrought in him after the Holy Spirit had fallen upon him on the day of Pentecost. We have o...
CONTENTS: The lame man healed at the temple gate. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter, John, lame man, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Pilate, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: The hand of compassion, extended by Spirit-...
Acts 3:1. _Peter and John went into the temple at the hour of prayer._ Some read, At the same time Peter and John went into the temple, intimating that this was the afternoon of the day of pentecost....
AND DESTROYED. Deuteronomy 18:15-19. The Jews could be saved only through Christ....
_All the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering._ SOLOMON’S PORCH The porch--or better, portico or cloister--was outside the temple, on the eastern sid...
_For Moses truly said unto your fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you … like unto me._ THE PROMISED PROPHET Note-- I. The appropriateness of God revealing Himself through a hu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:22 Peter quoted Deuteronomy 18:15 to establish that Jesus was the PROPHET LIKE ME that God had promised to send, and to point out the danger
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:11 Peter’s second sermon in the temple area was primarily a call for Jews to repent of their rejection of Jesus as Messiah. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 3:18. ALL HIS HOLY PROPHETS.—Best taken as a collective phrase for the prophets as a whole. Most of the Books of the Old Testament foretell distinctly the sufferings and death...
EXPOSITION ACTS 3:1 _Were going up _for _went up together, _A.V. and T.R. PETER AND JOHN. The close friendship of these two apostles is remarkable. The origin of it appears to have been their partner...
Shall we turn to Acts, the third chapter. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour (Acts 3:1). The day started at six o'clock in the morning, su...
2 Thessalonians 1:7; Acts 13:38; Deuteronomy 18:19; Hebrews 10:28;...
Shall be destroyed [ε ξ ο λ ο θ ρ ε υ θ η σ ε τ α ι]. Only here in New Testament. Rev., "utterly destroyed," giving the force of ejx out....
Every soul who will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people — One cannot imagine a more masterly address than this, to warn the Jews of the dreadful consequence of their infide...