Acts 2:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: ”

• Acts 2:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For Daniel speaketh ... - This doctrine that the Messiah must rise from the dead Peter proceeds to prove by a quotation from the Old Testament. This passage is taken from Psalms 16:8-11 . It is...

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• Acts 2:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 2:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  David. Psalms 18:8 . concerning . with reference to. App-104. foresaw . saw before (me). Only here and Acts 21:29 . Greek. proorao. always . through (App-104. Acts 2:1 ; Acts 2:1 ) every...

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• Acts 2:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. The resurrection, (110) which was both declared and witnessed by certain and evident testimonies, and which might also have been gathered out of the continual doctrine of the prophets, was...

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• Acts 2:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: For David speaketh concerning him - The quotation here is made fro...

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• Acts 2:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For David speaketh concerning him, &c.— It is plain that the phrase εις αυτον here signifies of or concerning him: the particle has the same import, Ephesians 5:32 . Elsner upon this place...

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• Acts 2:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: For David speaketh concerning him, х eis ( G1519 )...

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• Acts 2:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 2:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For David speaketh concerning him. — More accurately, in reference to Him — i.e., in words which extended to Him. Reading Psalms 16 without this interpretation, it seems as if it spoke only o...

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• Acts 2:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  David's Lord and Ours Acts 2:25-36 When one considers the vast result of this address, one wonders at its simplicity. It is almost entirely a string of apt quotations. But what may not the Word...

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• Acts 2:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 Chur...

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• Acts 2:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 a...

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• Acts 2:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For David speaketh concerning him ,.... The Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, in Psalms 16:8 . The whole psalm belongs to the Messiah, and everything concerning the person in it agrees with him; such...

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• Acts 2:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: Ver. 25. Be moved ] Tossed as a ship by tempest.

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• Acts 2:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For David speaketh concerning him Namely, Psalms 16:8-11 , where see the notes. I foresaw the Lord always before my face In the Psalm, according to the Hebrew, it is, I have set the Lord always...

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• Acts 2:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 declare...

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• Acts 2:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem.       14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, a...

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• Acts 2:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  David speaketh concerning him, Psalms 16:8 . I foresaw the Lord always before my face: in the psalm it is, I have set the Lord: the apostle following the reading of the Seventy, then in use an...

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• Acts 2:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 appeara...

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• Acts 2:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 2:22 . Mighty works, wonders, and signs .—Compare 2 Corinthians 12:12 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ; Hebrews 2:4 . Of these terms, the first, δυνάμεις, refers to the powers by...

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• Acts 2:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 2:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 th...

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• Acts 2:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Acts 2:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Acts 2:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 Pent...

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• Acts 2:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  For David speaketh concerning Him, I foresaw the Lord always before My face, for He is on My right hand, that I should not be moved;

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• Acts 2:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 13:32-36 ; Acts 2:29 ; Acts 2:30 ; Isaiah 41:13 ; Isaiah 50:7-9 ; John 16:32 ; Psalms 109:31 ; Psalms 110:5 ; Psalms 16:8-11 ; Psalms 21:7 ; Psalms 30:6 ; Psalms 62:2 ; Psalms 62:6...

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• Acts 2:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Psalms 16:8 .

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