Acts 2:43. And fear came upon every soul. The general impression on the public mind. A feeling of awe was excited even among those who did not join the company of believers. And many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. The healing of the lame man by Peter and John, related in the 3d chapter, is an instance of one of these.
ACTS 2:43 dia. tw/n avposto,lwn evgi,neto {C} It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain the original text of this passage. It can be argued, as Ropes does, that the words evn VIerousalh,m( fo,boj te h...
Verse 43. _AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL_] Different MSS. and versions read this clause thus, _And GREAT fear and TREMBLING came_ _upon every soul in JERUSALEM_. For several weeks past they had a ser...
AND FEAR CAME - That is, there was great reverence or awe. The multitude had just before derided them Acts 2:13; but so striking and manifest was the power of God on this occasion, that it silenced al...
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 RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE BRETHREN. The four items in Acts 2:42 should be taken in two pairs; (_a)_ the believers adhered steadfastly to the apostles as their teachers and to their common life with ea...
They persevered in listening to the apostles' teaching, in the fellowship. in the breaking of bread and in prayers. Awe was in every soul; and many signs and wonders were done by the apostles. All the...
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...
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_And fear came upon every soul_ The mockers were silenced by what they saw and heard, and were deterred from further opposition even though they did not listen to the call to repentance. _wonders and...
ΠΆΣΗΙ ΨΥΧΗ͂Ι. Even the mockers were afraid to continue their jeers in the face of such preaching and such lives. ΤΈΡΑΤΑ ΚΑῚ ΣΗΜΕΙ͂Α. See note on Acts 2:22. The purposes now chiefly aimed at by the mi...
THE FIRST CONVERTS AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR...
_THE RESULT IS SALVATION ACTS 2:40-47:_ Only those that gladly receive the word can be saved. The one that gladly receives the word will be baptized immediately. They did not eat, sleep nor drink firs...
ΈΓΊΝΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 2:2....
AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL:— A reverential _fear,_ mixed with admiration and respect. Dr. Heylin reads the verse, _And the minds of all men were struck with awe, at the many wonders and miracles wh...
e. The unity of the church. Acts 2:43-47. Acts 2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Acts 2:44 And all that believed were together, and ha...
43. Next to this brief notice of the exercises of the Church, we have a glance at the effect of the scenes just described, upon the surrounding community. (43) "_And fear came upon every soul, and man...
And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL - a deep awe rested on the whole outside community (so Bengel, Olshausen, Meyer, D...
38 Repentance and baptism lead to a probationary pardon, which may be withdrawn. This pardon is extended by Christ as the King. Its operation is illustrated by the parable of the ten thousand talent d...
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 LIFE AND WORSHIP OF THE FIRST CONVERTS. The converts were still earnest Jews, attending the services in the Temple daily (Acts 2:46), but they already formed a Church within a Church: for (1) they...
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,...
FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL. — The Greek text shows a careful distinction of tenses. Fear — i.e., reverential awe — came specially at that season; the “signs and wonders” were wrought continually. (See...
πάση ψυχῇ, _i.e._, every person, and so Acts 3:23, Hebraistic, _cf._ כָּל־נֶפֶשׁ, Leviticus 7:17; Leviticus 17:12, etc., and _cf._ 1Ma 2:38. In Acts
PENTECOSTAL DAYS Acts 2:37-47 There were no exceptions in Peter's great appeal for repentance. _Every one of you!_ he declared. “But I drove the nails into His hands.” _Every one of you!_ he insists....
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 Early Church At Work Those who were added together gave constant attention to the apostles' teaching because, as we have just seen, it was the teaching of Christ. Remember Jesus told his followers...
(12) And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. (12) As often as the Lord thinks it to be expedient, he bridles the rage of strangers, so that the Church may...
MANY MIRACLES 43. The occasion is rife with the miraculous manifestations of the Divine presence. The supernatural audience of every man in his own language and equally supernatural utterance of the o...
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (42) And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellows...
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...
43._And there came. _He signifieth unto us that the show and sight of the Church was such, that it made others afraid which did not consent unto [its] doctrine; and that was done for the preserving an...
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...
Ver. 43 AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL,.... Upon every inhabitant of Jerusalem, at least upon a great many of them; and upon all, or the greater part of them that saw, and heard these things; that hear...
And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. Ver. 43. _Fear came upon_] The enemies were overawed, and dared not moot or attempt against the Church....
_And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine_ Notwithstanding all the apparent danger to which they were exposed, they regularly attended on the word which the apostles preached, and reso...
FEAR CAME; on account of the great things which God had done and enabled the apostles to do....
AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL; AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE BY THE APOSTLES....
The effect of the sermon in the establishment and progress of the Church:...
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...
THEN FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL, AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE THROUGH THE APOSTLES. 1. Fear - not fear like dread. This fear is awe, wonder, amazement, as in "Fear God" and keep His commandmen...
And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. 'FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL'-This may refer to the awe and reverence which fell upon these early Christians. 'T...
42-47 In these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it; its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence. They kept close to...
UPON EVERY SOUL; that is, upon every man; not only on them that were present, and persuaded to believe on Christ, whom the apostles preached; but on such also as were informed of those miraculous thin...
43. Next to this brief notice of the exercises of the Church, we have a glance at the effect of the scenes just described, upon the surrounding community. (43) " And fear came upon every soul, and man...
Acts 2:43 Then G1161 fear G5401 upon G1096 (G5633) every G3956 soul G5590 and G5037 many G4183 wonders...
THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IS REVEALED AS PRESENT IN THE LIFE OF THE NEW CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL (2:42-47). Now, as a result of Pentecost, we have the beginnings of the Kingly Rule of God manifested on ear...
‘And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers. And fear came on every soul. And many wonders and signs were done through the apostl...
CAME (εγινετο). Imperfect middle, kept on coming.WERE DONE (εγινετο). Same tense. Awe kept on coming on all and signs and wonders kept on coming through the apostles. The two things went on παρ π...
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...
You know that Peter had been preaching a plain, simple, straightforward sermon upon the death, crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He, who was once such a coward that he trembled b...
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...
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...
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...
TO BE FILLED WITH AWE. Especially the unbelievers. Compare Acts 2:22....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:42. THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY.—Lit. _constantly applying themselves unto_, or _being engaged in_. A term characteristic of Luke (see Acts 2:46; Acts 6:4;...
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...
Acts 3:6; Acts 4:33; Acts 5:11; Acts 5:12; Acts 5:13;...
Fear [φ ο β ο ς]. Not terror, but reverential awe : as Mark 4:41; Luke 7:16; 1 Peter 1:17, etc....
And fear came upon every soul — Of those who did not join with them: whereby persecution was prevented, till it was needful for them....
Observe here, 1. What awful respect God obliged the people of Jerusalem to pay unto the apostles: FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL, AT THE SIGHT OF THOSE WONDERS AND SIGNS WHICH WERE WROUGHT BY THE APOSTLES....