Acts 2:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. ”

• Acts 2:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Many other words - This discourse, though one of the longest in the New Testament, is but an outline. It contains, however, the substance of the plan of salvation, and is admirably arranged to at...

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• Acts 2:40 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. (9) He is truly joined to the Church who separates himself from the wicked.

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• Acts 2:40 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Effect of the Sermon. A rapid and lively narrative succeeds. The hearers feel the sting of their position, and say ( cf . Luke 3:10-14 ), What shall we do? Peter's requirements are repentance and...

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• Acts 2:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  with . by. testify . earnestly testify. Greek. diamarturomai. Occurs fifteen times. Once in Luke 16:28 , nine times in Acts, and five times in Paul's Epistles. exhort. App-134. from . away...

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• Acts 2:40 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  40. And with many Although in these things which we have had hitherto, Luke did not recite the words of St Peter, but did only briefly touch the chief points; notwithstanding he telleth us a...

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• Acts 2:40 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1740 SEPARATION FROM THE UNGODLY RECOMMENDED Acts 2:40 . And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation . IT is in many re...

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• Acts 2:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Save yourselves from this untoward generation - Separate yourselves from them: be ye saved,...

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• Acts 2:40 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Save yourselves, &c.— That is, "See that you lay these things to heart; receiving them with such regard, as the importance of the case requires. Renounce that obstinate unbelief, in which you j...

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• Acts 2:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. And with many other words did he testify and exhort. This shows that we have here no...

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• Acts 2:40 - 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 2:40 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  With many other words. — The report breaks off, as if St. Luke’s informant had followed closely up to this point and then lost count of the sequence of thought and words. Did he testify — i.e.,...

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• Acts 2:40 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 in...

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• Acts 2:40 - 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 2:40 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? (38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be bap...

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• Acts 2:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort ,.... For Luke does not give the sermons of the apostles at length, but a compendium, or specimen of them, and some of the more remarkable things...

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• Acts 2:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Ver. 40. With many words did he testify ] διεμαρτυρετο, in God's name, for his sake, an...

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• Acts 2:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And with many other words To the same purpose; did he testify Gospel truths; and exhort To gospel duties. In such an accepted time, when the power of the word is felt, and good impressions appe...

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• Acts 2:40 - 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 2:40 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem.       37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest o...

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• Acts 2:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Many other words: the sermons of the apostles, or of our Saviour, are not all set down by the holy writers; but only so much as God saw necessary for his church to know and believe. Testify and ex...

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• Acts 2:40 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” ' We are now specifically informed that we have only been given the gist of Peter'...

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• Acts 2:40 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 2:37 . What shall we do? —As in Luke 3:10 ; Luke 3:12 ; Luke 3:14 . The cry showed how deeply Peter’s words had penetrated. Acts 2:38 . Be baptised .—The rite known t...

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• Acts 2:40 - 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 2:40 - 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 2:40 - 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 2:40 - 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 2:40 - 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 2:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The immediate effect of the sermon:

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• Acts 2:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:11 ; 1 Timothy 4:16 ; 2 Corinthians 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Acts 10:42 ; Acts 15:32 ; Acts 20:11 ; Acts 20:2 ; Acts 20:21 ; Acts 20:24 ; Acts 20:9 ;...

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• Acts 2:40 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort — In such an accepted time we should add line upon line, and not leave off, till the thing is done. Save yourselves from this perverse generation...

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