Acts 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. ”

Acts 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There were dwelling at Jerusalem - The word rendered “dwelling” - κατοικοῦντες katoikountes - properly means to have a fixed and permanent habitation, in distinction from another word - π...
Acts 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Effect on Outsiders. The visitation has taken place in a house, but the noise is heard, not the speaking with tongues, all over the town; a crowd collects, made up of pious and thoughtful men,...
Acts 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

dwelling. Greek. katoikeo. As in Acts 1:19 . Not sojourners for the Feast, but Jews of the dispersion who had taken up their abode at Jerusalem, perhaps because of the expectation of the Messiah...
Acts 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. And there were at Jerusalem. When he calleth them godly or religious men, he seemeth to give us to understand that they came to Jerusalem that they might worship God; like as God, in all...
Acts 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Devout men, out of every nation - Either by these we are simply to understand Jews who were born in different...
Acts 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, &c.— There were sojourning, &c. κατοικουντες. Devout or pious men, is a title applied not only to those religious persons who observed the Jewis...
Acts 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, х Eesan ( G2258 ) de ( G1161 ) katoikountes ( G273...
Acts 2:5 - 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 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There were dwelling at Jerusalem. — The phrase is one of frequent occurrence in St. Luke’s writings ( Luke 13:4 ; Acts 1:19 ; Acts 4:16 ). As a word, it implied a more settled residence than the...
Acts 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Speaking in Strange Tongues Acts 2:1-13 The priests in the Temple were offering the first loaves of the new harvest, in celebration of the feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came as the f...
Acts 2:5 - 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 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man...
Acts 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews ,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "proselytes"; but they were not all such, as appears from the following account of them; many, and it seems the most of th...
Acts 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Ver. 5. And there were dwelling, &c. ] Even in Jerusalem (for their ancient idolatries and latter unth...
Acts 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And there were dwelling Or sojourning; in Jerusalem, Jews Now gathered from all parts, by the peculiar providence of God; devout Greek, ευλαβεις, pious men, from every nation under heaven Sho...
Acts 2:5 - 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 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Day of Pentecost. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this...
Acts 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Not only constant inhabitants, but such as had on occasion their lodgings there; partly out of a constant respect, which both Jews and proselytes had for that place, (for the temple and their worship...
Acts 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard t...
Acts 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 2:5 . Dwelling at Jerusalem .—Not. “permanently residing” only, a sense the word usually has in Luke’s writings ( Luke 1:19 ; Luke 4:16 ; Luke 13:4 ), but also “temporari...
Acts 2:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 2:1-13 Pentecost I. The congregation in that upper room was the representative, or, as it were, the seed-germ, of the whole Catholic Church of all the centuries and of every land. For a symb...
Acts 2:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 2:1-8 . And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. «And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all th...
Acts 2:5 - 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 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation. The first congregation appealed to by the apostles I. It consisted of men of many lands. The fifteen countries remind...
Acts 2:5 - 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 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 10:2 ; Acts 10:7 ; Acts 13:50 ; Acts 22:12 ; Acts 8:2 ; Acts 2:1 ; Acts 8:27 ; Colossians 1:23 ; Deuteronomy 2:25 ; Exodus 23:16 ; Isaiah 66:18 ; John 12:20 ; Luke 17:24 ; Luke 2:2...
Acts 2:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Results of Pentecost Acts 2:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before Christ went away He said unto the disciples, "Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in Jerusalem, until...
Acts 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews — Gathered from all parts by the peculiar providence of God.

Acts 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 2:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 2:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes