ACTS 3:17 The Western text (D E ith, p copG67) introduces several changes: it (_a_) expands avdelfoi, into the more usual expression a;ndrej avdelfoi,, (_b_) accommodates the verb to the plural (evpi...
Verse Acts 3:17. _I WOT_] οιδα, _I know_. _Wot_ is from the Anglo-Saxon, [A.S.] _to know_; and hence _wit_, science or understanding. _THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT_] This is a very tender excuse for...
AND NOW, BRETHREN - Though they had been guilty of a crime so enormous, yet Peter shows the tenderness of his heart in addressing them still as his brethren. He regarded them as of the same nation wit...
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...
WOT. know, as in Acts 3:16. THROUGH. according to. Greek. _kata._ App-104. DID ALSO, &C.. your rulers also (did). Compare Luke 23:34....
_I wot_ This antiquated word is the present tense of the verb _to wit_(A. S. _witan_) = to know, and its past tense is _I wist_. Had I wist = had I known. _through ignorance_ Ignorance has many degree...
ST PETER’S DISCOURSE TO THE CROWD...
ΚΑΤᾺ ἌΓΝΟΙΑΝ, _through ignorance_. Ignorance has many degrees and may arise from many causes. The Jewish multitude were ignorant from want of teaching, their rulers from mental perverseness in looking...
_AN OPPORTUNITY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL ACTS 3:11-18:_ The man that was healed to Peter and John. He knew that they were instruments through whom God had worked. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of...
ΚΑΤΆ άγνοιαν (G2596; G52) по неведению/в неведении. Это дает возможность прощения тем, кто хочет покаяться (EDNT; об использовании слова в Септ., _см._ GELTS, 4). ΈΠΡΆΞΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΆΣΣΩ...
I WOT THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE— _I know,—I am sensible,_ &c. Probably if it had not been so, they would have been immediately destroyed, or reserved to vengeance, without any offer of pardon. Yet it is...
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...
17, 18. At this point in the discourse there is a marked change in Peter's tone and manner, which we can attribute to nothing else than some visible indication of the intense pain produced by what he...
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. AND NOW, BRETHREN, I WOT (OR 'KNOW') THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT, AS DID ALSO YOUR RULERS. (See ; ; ;...
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...
I WOT THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT. — The Rhemish is the only version which substitutes “I know” for the now obsolete “I wot.” St. Peter’s treatment of the relation of “ignorance” to “guilt” is in...
καὶ νῦν : favourite formula of transition, _cf._ Acts 7:35; Acts 10:5; Acts 20:25; Acts 22:16;...
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...
Preaching In Solomon's Porch With the now healed lame man holding onto each of them, it was natural that a crowd would gather around Peter and John. Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit to speak, seize...
(3) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did [it], as [did] also your rulers. (3) It is best of all to receive Christ as soon as he is offered to us: but those who have neglected so grea...
_You did it through ignorance, but such as could not excuse the chief of you. (Witham)_...
Though, as Peter says, _“The Jews blindly and ignorantly slew the Prince of Life,”_ yet they were awfully criminal in the sight of God because they had yielded to the lies of Satan and spontaneously t...
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...
17.Because it was to be doubted, lest, being cast down with despair, they should refuse his doctrine, he doth a little lift them up. We must so temper our sermons that they may profit the hearers, for...
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 NOW, BRETHREN,.... He calls them brethren, because they were so according to the flesh; and to testify his cordial love and affection for them. I WOT, or "I know", THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID...
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did _it_, as _did_ also your rulers. Ver. 17. _I wot that through ignorance_] Peter excuseth not their fact, but thus far forth mitigateth it, that...
_And now, brethren_ A word full of courtesy and compassion; _I wot_ That is, _I know:_ here he speaks to their hearts; _that through ignorance ye did it_ Which lessened, though it could not annihilate...
THROUGH IGNORANCE; they did not know when they crucified him, that he was the Messiah. They ought to have known it; and had they rightly improved their means of knowledge, they would have known it. Bu...
AND NOW, BRETHREN, I WOT THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT, AS DID ALSO YOUR RULERS....
The basis of the present facts in prophecy:...
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...
" YET NOW, BRETHREN, I KNOW THAT YOU DID _IT_ IN IGNORANCE, AS _DID_ ALSO YOUR RULERS. 1. Peter assures them that they were not to blame. They were mislead. 2. The real blame must be on the Jewish r...
And now, brethren,. know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. 'I KNOW THAT IN IGNORANCE YE DID IT, AS DID ALSO YOUR RULERS'-(Luke 23:34; Romans 10:1; 1 Corinthians 2:8;...
12-18 Observe the difference in the manner of working the miracles. Our Lord always spoke as having Almighty power, never hesitated to receive the greatest honour that was given to him on account of...
Lest the corrosive in ACTS 3:13 should pierce too far, to prevent despair in his auditors the apostle useth in this verse a lenitive, calling them yet BRETHREN, though guilty of so great a mistake in...
17, 18. At this point in the discourse there is a marked change in Peter's tone and manner, which we can attribute to nothing else than some visible indication of the intense pain produced by what he...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI But to all rational souls it was said from above, "Whatever one of you has done in ignorance, without clearly knowing God, if, on becoming conscious, he repent,...
Acts 3:17 Yet G2532 now G3568 brethren G80 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 did G4238 (G5656) in...
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...
“And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.” Peter then makes them a concession. He acknowledges that what they had done they had done in ignorance. When they had...
_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...
Acts 3:17. Peter's tone changes here. After his vivid picture of the awful guilt incurred by the Jews as a nation in murdering the Messiah, he now lovingly would not have them despair, but tells them...
Acts 3:17. AND NOW, BRETHREN. Notice the apostle no longer gravely, though courteously, addresses the people as ‘men of Israel' (Acts 3:12), but affectionately as ‘brethren.' THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID...
AND NOW (κα νυν). Luke is fond of these particles of transition (Acts 7:34; Acts 10:5; Acts 20:25; Acts 22:16) and also κα τα νυν ...
Acts 3:17 The Danger and Results of Unbelief. Consider: I. How St. Peter came to have a right to make allowance for the Jews. When the Apostle states that what the Jews did, they did through ignoran...
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...
Acts 3:1. _Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour._ Peter and John seem to have been linked in closest friendship. Peter had been brought back...
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....
BECAUSE OF YOUR IGNORANCE. _"Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing"_ (Luke 23:34)....
_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...
_And His name through faith in His name hath made this man strong._ THE POWER OF FAITH Faith in the name of Jesus is faith in Himself. The result of its exercise here was a manifest continuance of w...
_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 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Timothy 1:13; 2 Corinthians 3:14; Acts 13:27;...
FULFILLED PROPHECIES VERIFY UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES Acts 3:17 _; Acts 13:27_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Scripture chosen for today, is worth our thought. The first Scripture was spoken by Peter, the sec...
And now, brethren — A word full of courtesy and compassion, I know — He speaks to their heart, that through ignorance ye did it — which lessened, though it could not take away, the guilt. As did also...
Observe here, 1. How careful the apostle was, not to drive these murtherers of Christ (and consequently the worst of men) to despair, but to draw them to repentance; in order to which, 1. He mitigate...