Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 3:25
Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant — That in, heirs of the prophecies. To you properly, as the first heirs, belong the prophecies and the covenant. Genesis 12:3.
Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant — That in, heirs of the prophecies. To you properly, as the first heirs, belong the prophecies and the covenant. Genesis 12:3.
ACTS 3:25 u`mw/n {C} A majority of the Committee considered it probable that the second person pronoun u`mw/n has been conformed to the general usage of Acts in referring to “our fathers.”...
Verse Acts 3:25. _YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS_] This is the _argumentum ad hominem_: as ye are the children or disciples of the prophets, ye are bound to believe their predictions, and obey t...
YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS - Greek: “Ye are the sons of the prophets.” The meaning is, not that they were literally the “descendants” of the prophets, but that they were their “disciples,” “p...
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...
THE. Omit. CHILDREN. sons. Greek. _huios._ App-108. COVENANT. Greek. _diatheke._ Compare Luke 1:72. For this Hebraism, "sons of the covenant", compare Matthew 8:12; Matthew 9:15.
_Ye are the children_[better, SONS] _of the prophets_ i.e. of the same race, and therefore what the prophets spake is meant for you. The prophet _foretold_by Moses is raised up for you. _and_[_sons o...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
ΥἹΟῚ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΡΟΦΗΤΩ͂Ν. Render, _sons of the prophets_, i.e. of the same race as they, and hence what they spake is meant for you. For you is the prophet raised up whom Moses foretold. ΚΑῚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΔΙΑΘΉΚΗΣ,...
_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....
ΔΙΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΔΙΑΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G1303) принимать завет, ΈΝΕΥΛΟΓΗΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΝΕΥΛΟΓΈΩ (G1757) благословлять. Здесь подчеркивается идея универсального благословения всех семей...
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...
25, 26. Having completed his argument, in which the Messiahship of Jesus was demonstrated by the miraculous cure they had witnessed, and by the testimony of all the prophets, from Moses and Samuel dow...
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. YE ARE THE CHILDREN O...
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,...
3:25 Abraham, (e-20) See Genesis 22:18 ....
UNTO ABRAHAM] see Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4;...
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...
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...
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...
AND OF THE COVENANT.... — It is a significant indication of the unity of apostolic teaching, which it was St. Luke’s aim to bring before his readers, that St. Peter thus refers chiefly to the covenant...
ὑμεῖς, as in Acts 3:26, emphatic, “obligat auditores” Bengel, _cf._ Acts 2:39; Romans 9:4; Romans 15:8; their preference and destiny ought to make them more sensible of th
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...
(4) Ye are the (i) children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. (4) The Jews tha...
_You are the children... to you first God raising up his Son. He gives them encouragement, that not only the promise of sending the Messias was made to them, but that he came, and is to be preached to...
_“Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with our fathers, saying to Abraham: Truly in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”_ You all know _“seed...
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...
25._You are the children. _He signifieth that the grace of the covenant was appointed principally for them, which covenant God made with their fathers. And so as he pricked them forward to obey the go...
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,...
YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS,.... Of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are called prophets, Psalms 105:15 being lineally and naturally descended from them; to them belonged the prophecies of the O...
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Ver. 25. _Ye are the chi...
_Yea, and all the prophets_ That succeeded Moses, particularly _from Samuel, have likewise foretold these days_ The days of the Messiah, which, by the singular favour of God to you, ye are now so happ...
WHICH GOD MADE WITH OUR FATHERS; GENESIS 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; GALATIANS 3:16....
A final exhortation:...
YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS, AND OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD MADE WITH OUR FATHERS, SAYING UNTO ABRAHAM, AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED....
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...
YOU ARE SONS OF THE PROPHETS, AND OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD MADE WITH OUR FATHERS, SAYING TO ABRAHAM, _‘AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED._ '__ 1. Peter is talking to Je...
Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 'THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS'-T...
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...
CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS; the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are called _prophets,_ PSALMS 105:15, and did prophesy, foretelling things to come, &c. The disciples of the prophets are also call...
25, 26. Having completed his argument, in which the Messiahship of Jesus was demonstrated by the miraculous cure they had witnessed, and by the testimony of all the prophets, from Moses and Samuel dow...
Acts 3:25 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) sons G5207 prophets G4396 and G2532 covenant G1242 which G3739 God...
“You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having...
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 3:25. YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS AND OF THE COVENANT. ‘Children' (υἱοί). ‘Children' in this sense is a very common expression in Hebrew thought. So in Matthew 8:12, we read of ‘the child...
_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...
YE (Hυμεις). Emphatic position.THE COVENANT WHICH GOD MADE (της διαθηκης ης ο θεος διεθετο). Literally, "the covenant which God covenanted." Διαθηκη and διεθετο (second aorist middle indicative of...
CHILDREN (Greek, "uihos", "sons")....
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....
THE PROMISES. ARE FOR YOU. Compare Galatians 3:8; Galatians 3:16_; Romans 3._ The Good News of God's act in Christ was first presented to the Jews. Notice God's Servant [Jesus Christ] would bless them...
_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...
_Ye are the children of the prophets and of the covenant._ THE CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT, THE SAVIOUR’S FIRST CARE I. All who have been dedicated to God by believing parents, are children of the cove...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 3:25 ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH. The gospel’s worldwide mission was already present in Peter’s message. Later, however, he would more fully understand what that mission entailed ...
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...
1 Chronicles 16:17; Acts 13:26; Acts 2:39; Galatians 3:16; Galat
Covenant [δ ι α θ η κ η ς]. See on Matthew 26:28. Made (die qeto). The Rev. gives covenanted in margin. The noun covenant is derived from the verb diatiqnmi, originally to distribute or arrange. Henc...
Still observe, How sweetly St. Peter invites and encourages these murtherers of Christ to repentance; the worst of men must neither be driven to despair, nor to be too hastily despaired of. He tells t...