Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 2:6
The multitude came together, and were confounded — The motions of their minds were swift and various.
The multitude came together, and were confounded — The motions of their minds were swift and various.
ACTS 2:6 h;kouon The variations are between the imperfect and the aorist tense and the singular and the plural number. A majority of the Committee regarded h;kouen (C 81 467 547 1311 1739 vg syrph co...
Verse Acts 2:6. _WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD_] If we suppose that there was a considerable peal of thunder, which followed the escape of a vast quantity of _electric fluid_, and produced the _mighty...
WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD - When the rumor of this remarkable transaction was spread, as it naturally would be. WERE CONFOUNDED - συνεχύθη sunechuthē̄. The word used here means literally “to pour...
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...
WHEN, &C. Literally this voice (Greek. _phone)_ having come. MULTITUDE. Greek. _plethos._ Occurs seventeen times in Acts, translated multitude, save Acts 28:3, "bundle". CONFOUNDED. Greek. _sunchuno....
_Now when this was noised abroad_ Rather, AND WHEN THIS SOUND WAS HEARD. Φενή though not the same word as is used for _sound_in Acts 2:2, yet is never found in the sense of a _report_or _rumour_, as i...
ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΗΣ ΔῈ ΤΗ͂Σ ΦΩΝΗ͂Σ ΤΑΎΤΗΣ, _and when this sound was heard_. Φωνή though not the same word as ἦχος which is used for _sound_ in Acts 2:2, yet is never found in the sense of a _report_ or _rumour_...
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...
ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΗΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 2:2. _Gen. abs._ ΣΥΝΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4905) собираться вместе, ΣΥΝΕΧΎΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΥΓΧΈΩ (G4797) смущать, запутыв...
EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK, &C.— Some commentators of note, both antient and modern, have maintained that they spoke only one language, that is, Hebrew, or Syro-Chaldaic; but that the people heard the...
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...
6-12. "_And when this sword occurred, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect._" The historian here seems to exhaust his vocabulary of...
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD, [ foonees (G5456) =...
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...
2:6 spread, (h-7) Or 'this voice having taken place ' but I believe what is in the text to be the sense. It was what happened at the place which brought the crowd there. it was not the mighty rushing...
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 MULTITUDE] comprising not only these 'dwellers' in Jerusalem, but those who had come to keep the feast. Pentecost was one of the three festivals at which every Israelite was expected to appear bef...
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,...
WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD.... — Better _When there had been this voice,_ or _utterance._ The word for “voice” is never used for rumour or report in the New Testament; always of some utterance — huma...
φωνῆς ταύτης : “when this sound was heard,” R.V. “Hic idem quod ἦχος comm [119] 2,” so Wetstein, who compares for φωνή in this sense Matthew 24:31; 1 Corinthians 14:7-8 (2 Chronicles 5:13), and so mos...
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...
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...
6._When this was noised abroad. _Luke saith thus in Greek, _This voice being made; _but his meaning is, that the fame was spread abroad, whereby it came to pass that a great multitude came together. F...
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...
NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD,.... Or "when this voice was made"; referring either to the sound, as of a mighty rushing wind, which came from heaven; and might not only be heard by those in the hous...
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. Ver. 6. _Were confounded_] Or troubled, transported, am...
_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 MULTITUDE-WERE CONFOUNDED; astonished, and thrown into great perplexity....
NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD, THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER AND WERE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE THAT EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE....
The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:...
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 WHEN THIS SOUND OCCURRED, THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER, AND WERE CONFUSED, BECAUSE EVERYONE HEARD THEM SPEAK IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE. 1. The roar of the wind sound was heard by more than the 12 It was...
WHEN THIS WAS NOISED: _ Gr._ When this voice was made CONFOUNDED: Or, troubled in mind...
And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. 'THIS SOUND'-The sound of rushing wind, the sound of t...
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...
NOISED ABROAD; either the miraculous winds were heard, or the report of what had happened was spread abroad. WERE CONFOUNDED; either out of shame that they had slain Christ, whom God thus extraordinar...
6-12. "_ And when this sword occurred, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect. " The historian here seems to exhaust his vocabulary o...
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes For what says the Scripture? "That every man heard the apostles speak in his own language through the Spirit, the Paraclete."[375]...
Acts 2:6 And G1161 this G5026 occurred G1096 (G5637) G5456 multitude G4128 together G4905 (G5627) and...
THE REACTION OF THE HEARERS (2:5-13)....
‘Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard th...
Acts 2:6. NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD; or better rendered, ‘And when this sound was heard.' Calvin, Beza, and the translators of the English Version have understood these words in the sense of ‘No...
WHEN THIS SOUND WAS HEARD (γενομενης της φωνης ταυτης). Genitive absolute with aorist middle participle. Note φωνη this time, not ηχο as in verse Acts 2:1. Φωνη originally meant sound as of the wind...
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 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. _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 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...
_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 Corinthians 16:9; 2 Corinthians 2:12; Acts 3:11; Matthew 2:3...
When this was noised abroad [γ ε ν ο μ ε ν η ς δ ε τ η ς φ ω ν η ς τ ε υ τ η ς]. Wrong. Lit., And this sound having taken place. Rev., correctly, when this sound was heard. The sound of the rushing wi...
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...