Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven — So will the Son of man come to judgment. And it filled all the house — That is, all that part of the temple where they were sitting.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven — So will the Son of man come to judgment. And it filled all the house — That is, all that part of the temple where they were sitting.
ACTS 2:1-2 Kai. evn tw|/ sumplhrou/sqai th.n h`me,ran th/j penthkosth/j h=san pa,ntej o`mou/ evpi. to. auvto,) (2) kai. evge,neto The Bezan text, preferred by Ropes, reads kai. evge,neto evn tai/j h`...
Verse Acts 2:2. _A SOUND FROM HEAVEN_] Probably thunder is meant, which is the harbinger of the Divine presence. _RUSHING MIGHTY WIND_] The passage of a large portion of electrical fluid over that p...
AND SUDDENLY - It burst upon them at once. Though they were waiting for the descent of the Spirit, yet it is not probable that they expected it in this manner. As this was an important event, and one...
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 PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT IS FULFILLED TO THE DISCIPLES. Acts 2:1. Fifty days after Easter, ten days after the Ascension, the promise of Acts 1:4; Acts 1:8 is fulfilled and the Church starts into acti...
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...
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...
SUDDENLY. Greek. _aphno._ Only here; Acts 16:26; Acts 28:6. SOUND. Greek. _echos._ Only here; Luke 4:37; Hebrews 12:19. FROM.
_And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind_ Rather, OF THE RUSHING OF A MIGHTY WIND, lit., _of a mighty wind borne along_. The verb employed to express the rushing of the...
Acts 2:1-13. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN AT PENTECOST. EFFECT FIRST PRODUCED THEREBY ON THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM...
ὭΣΠΕΡ ΦΕΡΟΜΈΝΗΣ ΠΝΟΗ͂Σ ΒΙΑΊΑΣ. Literally ‘as of a mighty wind borne along,’ i.e. _as of the rushing of a mighty wind_. The verb here employed to express the rushing of the wind is used by St Peter (2...
_THE HOLY GHOST DESCENDED ACTS 2:1-4:_ Jesus had promised that the kingdom of God would come with power. (Mark 9:1) The power came with the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. The events under...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, быть, случаться, ΆΦΝΩ (G869) внезапно, ΉΧΟΣ (G2279) звук, шум. В Luke 21:25 используется для обозначения шума моря. Это был "рокочущий...
DISCOURSE: 1736 OUT-POURING OF THE SPIRIT 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 rushin...
AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND— It was about 1500 years before this, and, as many think, on this very day of the year, that the law was given of God from Mount Sinai, in the sight andhearing of all I...
3. IN AN APARTMENT IN THE TEMPLE. a. The baptism in the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-4. Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. Acts 2:2 And suddenly th...
2. It was the apostles, then, and they alone, who were assembled together: (2) "_And suddenly there came a sound out of heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were...
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN, AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIN...
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...
2:2 blowing, (g-15) It is not 'wind,' but they heard blowing, as of hard breathing, for which the Greek is used. 'Blast' is too sudden and passing....
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...
A SOUND] The miraculous accompaniments of the outpouring of the Spirit were intended partly to strengthen the faith of the Apostles in the reality of the gift, and partly to arrest the attention of th...
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,...
Each aspect of the old Feast of Weeks, now known as Pentecost, or the “Fiftieth-day” Feast, presented a symbolic meaning which made it, in greater or less measure, typical of the work now about to be...
CHAPTER 5 THE PENTECOSTAL BLESSING. Acts 2:1 IN these words we find the record of the event which completed the Church, and endowed it with that mysterious power which then was, and ever since has...
ἄφνω : only in Acts, here, and in Acts 16:26; Acts 28:6; Klostermann's _Vindiciæ Lucanæ_, p. 55; several times in LXX, but also in classical Greek in Thuc., Dem., Eur. ἦχος ὥσπερ φερομ. πν. βιαίας, li...
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 Baptism of the Holy Spirit John the Baptist foretold that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit. God told John the one who would administer that baptism was the one "Upon whom you see the Spiri...
A sound, &c. Perhaps this was a kind of thunder, accompanied with a great wind, which filled with terror and awe the whole company, and disposed them to receive the gift of heaven with humility and fe...
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. (3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sa...
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...
2._And there was made _It was requisite that the gift should be visible, that the bodily sense might the more stir up the disciples. For such is our slothfulness to consider the gifts of God, that unl...
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 SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN,.... Which is expressive of the original of the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, which come from above, from heaven, from the Father of lights; and of...
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Ver. 2. _As of a rushing mighty wind_] _Nescit tarda molimina gratia Spir...
_And suddenly_ That is, unexpectedly and in a moment, not gradually, as winds generally rise; _there came a sound from heaven_ Not, as some have supposed, like a clap of thunder; but _as of a rushing...
AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED ALL THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING....
THE PENTECOST MIRACLE. The apostles filled with the Holy Spirit:...
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 SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN, AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. 1. Sound like rushing wind - Many describe the sound of a tornado as a...
And suddenly there came from heaven. sound as of the rushing of. mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 'A SOUND AS OF THE RUSHING OF. MIGHTY WIND'-'It does not appear that...
1-4 We cannot forget how often, while their Master was with them there were strifes among the disciples which should be the greatest; but now all these strifes were at an end. They had prayed more to...
SUDDENLY, the apostles themselves not expecting it, THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND; to prepare them to attend the more unto what they should hear and see afterwards; also t...
2. It was the apostles, then, and they alone, who were assembled together: (2) "_ And suddenly there came a sound out of heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they wer...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews And there appeared to them cloven tongues as if of fire, which also settled upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy...
Acts 2:2 And G2532 suddenly G869 came G1096 (G5633) sound G2279 from G1537 heaven G3772 as G5618 rushing...
‘And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind (pnoe), and it filled all the house where they were sitting.' Suddenly, as they were praying there, there came the ‘soun...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (2:1-4). It must be recognised what Pentecost was. It was not the day of the crowning of the King. That had already taken place in Heaven (Matthew 28:18; Mark 16:19; Dani...
Acts 2:2-3. THERE CAME FROM HEAVEN a SOUND as OF a RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED ALL THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM CLOVEN TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE, AND IT SAT UPO...
SUDDENLY (αφνω). Old adverb, but in the N.T. only in Acts (Acts 2:2; Acts 16:26; Acts 28:6). Kin to εξαιφνης (Acts 22:61).A SOUND (ηχος). Our εχο. Ol...
Acts 2:2 The Christian's Interest in the Day of Pentecost I. At the day of Pentecost a new era did manifestly break upon the world; not an era during which human reason was to be more vast than it ha...
Acts 2:2 , ACTS 2:17 _(with John 2:20)_ The Fourfold Symbols of the Spirit I. A rushing mighty wind. In this symbol we have set forth the highest work of the Spirit the communication of a new and su...
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._ 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 suddenly there came a sound from heaven._ THE SOUND FROM HEAVEN AN ANSWER TO PRAYER The united prayer of the apostles was a cry to heaven, well pleasing to God, and this sound was a delightful...
_And when the day of Pentecost was fully come._ THE DAY OF PENTECOST I. In the occurrences of the day of Pentecost we discover evidence of a special Divine influence. This idea is too prevalent, that...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:2 Jesus compared the Holy Spirit’s work to the wind in John 3:8. The HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING probably was the upper room ...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:1. PENTECOST.—So called from the date of its occurrence, the fiftieth from the second day of the Passover. FULLY COME.—Lit. _was being fulfilled_, referring to the completion...
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 Kings 19:11; Acts 16:25; Acts 16:26; Acts 4:31; Ezekiel 3:12;...
A sound [η χ ο ς]. See on Luke 4:37. Of a rushing mighty wind [φ ε ρ ο μ ε ν η ς π ν ο η ς β ι α ι α ς]. Lit., of a mighty wind born along. Pnoh is a blowing, a blast. Only here and ch. 27 25. Rev.,...
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...