Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 2:24
Having loosed the pains of death — The word properly means, the pains of a woman in travail. As it was not possible that he should be held under it — Because the Scripture must needs be fulfilled.
Having loosed the pains of death — The word properly means, the pains of a woman in travail. As it was not possible that he should be held under it — Because the Scripture must needs be fulfilled.
ACTS 2:24 qana,tou {A} The Western substitution of a[|dou (D itd, e, gig vg syrp copbo Polycarp Irenaeuslat Ephraem Augustine) for qana,tou appears to be an assimilation to the use of a[|dhn in verse...
Verse Acts 2:24. _WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP_] For, as God alone gave him up to death, so God alone raised him up from death. _HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH_] It is generally supposed that this expr...
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP - This was the main point, in this part of his argument, which Peter wished to establish. He could not but admit that the Messiah had been in an ignominious manner put to death...
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 ...
PETER EXPLAINS THE OCCURRENCE. Peter is, as before, the mouthpiece of the community. His speech is not addressed to foreigners but to the people of Jerusalem, and shows us, as his other speeches do, t...
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...
"Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by deeds of power and wonders and signs, which God, among you, did through him, as you yourselves know this man,...
RAISED UP. App-178. Compare Acts 13:32; Acts 13:33. PAINS. birth-pangs. Greek. _odin._ Only here; Matthew 24:8; Mark 13:8;...
RECITAL OF GOD’S TESTIMONY BY THE RESURRECTION TO THE MESSIAHSHIP OF JESUS...
ΤᾺΣ ὨΔΙ͂ΝΑΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ. The expression occurs in LXX. Psalms 17:5, &c....
_THE SERMON IS PREACHED ACTS 2:16-39:_ Peter said the events of Pentecost were predicted by the prophet Joel. This is what Joel had predicted. The " last days" refers to the Christian dispensation tha...
ΆΝΈ-ΣΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G450) поднимать, ΛΎΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΛΎΩ (G3089) отпускать, развязывать. Part, образа действия, ΏΔΪ́ΝΑΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΏΔΊΝ (G5604) боль; _pl._ родовы...
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP, &C.— "But be it known unto you, that God hath abundantly vindicated the honour of this his dear Son, whom you have thus infamously abused, and hath borne a most glorious testi...
c. The sermon of Peter. Acts 2:14-36. Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men THE TOMB OF DAVID The whole group of buildin...
See notes on verse 22...
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP - thus augustly reversing their sentence of condemnat...
18 Peter, not Joel, speaks of prophesying. It is an inspired break between that part of Joel's prophecy which was fulfilled at Pentecost and that which is yet future. 22 In the evangel of the kingdom...
THE PAINS OF DEATH] lit. 'the birthpangs of death.' Death being personified as a woman in travail, and receiving relief when the dead are 'born again' by resurrection. But it is more probable that St....
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...
ST. PETER'S SERMON AND ITS EFFECTS. Peter's sermon falls into four divisions: (1) Acts 2:14. Explanation of the phenomenon of speaking with tongues as a manifestation of the outpouring of the Spirit f...
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,...
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP. — It is probable enough that some rumours of the Resurrection had found their way among the people, and had been met by the counter-statement of which we read in Matthew 28:11...
THE OUTPOURED SPIRIT Acts 2:14-24 The exulting joy of these Spirit-anointed people was accounted for by some through charging them with drunkenness. Peter dismissed the charge as absurd, seeing that...
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...
They Crucified God's Approved Man No one could successfully deny that Jesus had worked miracles because they had been done in plain view. Those miracles should have inspired awe (wonder) in the hearts...
(6) Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the (s) pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. (6) As David foretold, Christ did not only rise again, but also was void...
Having loosed the sorrows [2] of hell, &c. In the ordinary Greek copies, of death. As to the sense of this place, 1. It is certain Christ suffered the pains and pangs of a violent death. 2. That his s...
CHRIST, DAVID'S SUCCESSOR 22-35. We find in these Scriptures that Christ was predestinated to suffer and die to redeem the world. While this is true, it was perfectly optionary with Judas, the Jews an...
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: (15) For these ar...
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...
24._Having loosed the sorrows of death. _By the sorrows of death I understand some farther thing than the bodily sense or feeling. For those which duly consider the nature of death, because they hear...
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...
WHOM GOD RAISED UP,.... From the dead; for though his life was taken away by men, he was raised to life again by God the Father, to whom the resurrection of Christ is generally ascribed, though not to...
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Ver. 24. _It was not possible_] For he was life essential, and therefore "swallo...
_Him, being delivered_ Unto death, by God his heavenly Father, who not only permitted him to be put to death, but _delivered him up for us all. Romans 8:32_; devoted and gave him up; and yet he was ap...
IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE; that Jesus should continue in the grave, consistently with the fulfilment of God's determination to raise him up, as foretold by David. Psalms 16:8-11....
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP, HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BEHOLDEN OF IT. Peter here launches forth into his sermon proper, to testify of Christ as David's...
Peter's testimony of Jesus:...
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...
WHOM GOD RAISED UP, HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BE HELD BY IT. 1. SERMON - Point 3 - GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD 1. God is the one who raised Jesus...
whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. 'WHOM GOD RAISED UP'-'Likely there had been rumors of His resurrection spreading thro...
22-36 From this gift of the Holy Ghost, Peter preaches unto them Jesus: and here is the history of Christ. Here is an account of his death and sufferings, which they witnessed but a few weeks before....
OLBHeb; WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP: Christ rose by his own power as God: it being, perhaps, too strong meat to be given at first to such who were under so great prejudices against our Saviour; but by con...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians long gone by, endureth even until now, and bringeth forth fruit to our Lord Jesus Christ, who for our sins suffered even unto death, [but] "whom God raised frot...
Acts 2:24 whom G3739 God G2316 up G450 (G5656) loosed G3089 (G5660) pains G5604 death G2288 because...
PETER'S REPLY (2:14-36). In his reply Peter reveals a combination of what he has learned through the ministry of Jesus, and what Jesus had made clear to His disciples over His resurrection appearances...
“Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible that he should be kept captive by it.” But His death had not been the end. For God had raised Him up, and had release...
Acts 2:24. WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP. ‘Resurrection.' Peter had been leading up all the time to this great fact the resurrection of Jesus; the remainder of his discourse (thirteen verses) dwells exclusi...
_St. Peter's First Discourse,_ 14-36. No doubt the few discourses St. Luke has given us in the ‘Acts,' represent faithfully the various characteristic features of early apostolic preaching. They are s...
GOD RAISED UP (ο θεος ανεστησεν). _Est hoc summum orationis_ (Blass). Apparently this is the first public proclamation to others than believers of the fact of the Resurrection of Jesus. "At a time...
Acts 2:24 St. Peter says Christ was raised from the dead because it was not possible that He should be holden of death. Let us consider what were the reasons for this Divine impossibility. I. First,...
Acts 2:20 , ACTS 2:32 The first Christian Apology I. The audience which St. Peter addressed were familiar with the main outlines of Jesus' life as recent and notorious events. We assume them also. Fo...
Acts 2:14 The first Gospel Sermon There are four links in St. Peter's chain of evidence. The first two, lying within the knowledge of his hearers, are briefly handled; the last two, being facts lyin...
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 2:14. _But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words:_ A g...
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...
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE THAT DEATH SHOULD HOLD HIM PRISONER. Because he was _life_ (John 1:4); and because it was the Father's will that he should rise from death. This verse sums up the four Gospels....
_But Peter standing up with the eleven._ THE SCENE Never was such an audience assembled as that before which this poor fisherman appeared: men of different nations, rapidly and earnestly speaking in...
_Ye men of Israel, hear these words._ PERSONAL PREACHING One of the old English worthies said that a great many sermons were like carefully written letters dropped into the post-office without any a...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 2:14 The Witness in Jerusalem. Beginning with Peter’s sermon at Pentecost and continuing through ch. Acts 5:1, the Christians’ witness is limited to the city of Jerus
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:22. MIGHTY WORKS, WONDERS, AND SIGNS.—Compare 2 Corinthians 12:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 2:
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 15:12; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Thessalonians 1:10;...
Pains [ω δ ι ν α ς]. The meaning is disputed. Some claim that Peter followed the Septuagint mistranslation of Psalms 18:5, where the Hebrew word for snares is rendered by the word used here, pains; an...