Acts 2:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. ”

Acts 2:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they continued stedfastly - They persevered in, or they adhered to. This is the inspired record of the result. That any of these apostatized is nowhere recorded, and is not to be presumed. Th...
Acts 2:42 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(11) And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and (b) fellowship, and in (c) breaking of bread, and in prayers. (11) The marks of the true Church are the doctrine of the apostles, the...
Acts 2:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 wi...
Acts 2:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And. This and the "ands" in following verses give the Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6. continued stedfastly. Greek. proskartereo. See note on Acts 1:14 . doctrine . teaching. fello...
Acts 2:42 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

42. In their doctrine Luke doth not only commend in them the constancy of faith or of godliness, but he saith, also, that they did constantly give themselves to those exercises which serve t...
Acts 2:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. They continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine - They received it, retained it,...
Acts 2:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they continued steadfastly, &c.— This may intimate, on the one hand, that many efforts were made to shake their resolution; and, on the other, that, upon fuller inquiry, they found all thin...
Acts 2:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, х E...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And they continued steadfastly. — The one Greek word is expressed by the English verb and adverb. As applied to persons, the New Testament use of the word is characteristic of St. Luke ( Acts 2:46...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 fellow...
Acts 2:42 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE APOSTLES’ DOCTRINE ‘They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine.’ Acts 2:42 This verse gives us the earliest information of the essential features of Christian unity. After Pent...
Acts 2:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine ,.... And which is the same with the doctrine of Christ, of which he is the author, preacher, and subject; the substance of which is peace, p...
Acts 2:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Ver. 42. Doctrine and fellowship ] So the Philippians, Philippians 1:5 . See Tra...
Acts 2:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 res...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Fellowship of the Disciples. 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of brea...
Acts 2:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They continued stedfastly, speaks the reality of their conversion, and that they were not only for the present affected with what they had heard and seen. These three parts of worship were frequent...
Acts 2:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 apost...
Acts 2:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 ; Acts 8:1...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart. The effects of gospel preaching 1. Peter having explained the events of Pentecost, an immediate effect was produced. “They were pricke...
Acts 2:42 - 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...
Acts 2:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The effect of the sermon in the establishment and progress of the Church:
Acts 2:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:16 ; 1 Corinthians 10:17 ; 1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 11:2 ; 1 Corinthians 11:20-26 ; 1 John 1:3 ; 1 John 1:7 ; 1 John 2:19 ; 2 Peter 3:1 ; 2 Peter 3:17 ; 2 Peter...
Acts 2:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And they continued steadfast — So their daily Church communion consisted in these four particulars: Hearing the word; Having all things common; Receiving the Lord's Supper; Prayer. Ye diff'rent se...

Acts 2:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Acts 2:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 2:42 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 2:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 2:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 2:42 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Acts 2:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 2:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 2:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 2:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 2:42 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 2:42 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 2:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:42 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 2:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 2:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 2:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes