Acts 3:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. ”

• Acts 3:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And now, brethren - Though they had been guilty of a crime so enormous, yet Peter shows the tenderness of his heart in addressing them still as his brethren. He regarded them as of the same natio...

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• Acts 3:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (3) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did [it], as [did] also your rulers. (3) It is best of all to receive Christ as soon as he is offered to us: but those who have neglected so gr...

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• Acts 3:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Speech of Peter. Acts 3:12-16 . The Facts. The idea and arrangement of the speech closely resemble that of Acts 2:14-36 ; it exhibits the style of controversy with the Jews. The hearers are addr...

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• Acts 3:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wot . know, as in Acts 3:16 . through . according to. Greek. kata. App-104. did also, &c. . your rulers also (did). Compare Luke 23:34 .

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• Acts 3:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. Because it was to be doubted, lest, being cast down with despair, they should refuse his doctrine, he doth a little lift them up. We must so temper our sermons that they may profit the hear...

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• Acts 3:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it , as did also your rulers. I wot - Οιδα, I know. Wot is from the Anglo-Saxon, to know; and hence wit, science or understanding. Through i...

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• Acts 3:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I wot that through ignorance— I know,—I am sensible, &c. Probably if it had not been so, they would have been immediately destroyed, or reserved to vengeance, without any offer of pardon. Yet...

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• Acts 3:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. And now, brethren, I wot (or 'know') that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. (See Luke...

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• Acts 3:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Lame Man Healed 1-26. Healing of the lame man. Speech of Peter. St. Luke here singles out from the multitude of 'wonders and signs done by the Apostles' ( Acts 2:43 ), the one which led to the...

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• Acts 3:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I wot that through ignorance ye did it. — The Rhemish is the only version which substitutes “I know” for the now obsolete “I wot.” St. Peter’s treatment of the relation of “ignorance” to “guilt” is...

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• Acts 3:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Searching Words Acts 3:11-26 Peter's sermon was delivered in the eastern colonnade of the Temple. It derived its name probably from the fact that Solomon's Porch had originally occupied that si...

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• Acts 3:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The men at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple is the illustration of a constant fact: approximation to God is a habit of humanity in its need. Mendicants are not often found at the doors where an infid...

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• Acts 3:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. (18) But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he...

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• Acts 3:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now, brethren ,.... He calls them brethren, because they were so according to the flesh; and to testify his cordial love and affection for them. I wot , or "I know", that through ignorance y...

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• Acts 3:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it , as did also your rulers. Ver. 17. I wot that through ignorance ] Peter excuseth not their fact, but thus far forth mitigateth it, th...

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• Acts 3:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And now, brethren A word full of courtesy and compassion; I wot That is, I know: here he speaks to their hearts; that through ignorance ye did it Which lessened, though it could not annihilat...

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• Acts 3:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In this great work the apostles were not dealing only with large numbers. As Peter and John went to the temple, not to speak, but at the mid afternoon hour of prayer, they contacted a man lame from h...

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• Acts 3:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple.       12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye...

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• Acts 3:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Lest the corrosive in Acts 3:13-15 should pierce too far, to prevent despair in his auditors the apostle useth in this verse a lenitive, calling them yet brethren, though guilty of so great a m...

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• Acts 3:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Peter's Second Proclamation to the People (3:12-26). As in his first message Peter first refers back to the past, but this time it is to ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob', the ones who had rec...

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• Acts 3:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 3:18 . All His holy prophets .—Best taken as a collective phrase for the prophets as a whole. Most of the Books of the Old Testament foretell distinctly the sufferings and...

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• Acts 3:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 3 The Lame Man Healed We are reminded by this incident: I. That there are some things more valuable than money. Peter with his gift of healing was of infinitely greater service to this lame...

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• Acts 3:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 3:1 . Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. Peter and John seem to have been linked in closest friendship. Peter had been brought b...

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• Acts 3:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 3:1 . Peter and John went into the temple at the hour of prayer. Some read, At the same time Peter and John went into the temple, intimating that this was the afternoon of the day of pentecos...

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• Acts 3:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  All the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. Solomon’s porch The porch--or better, portico or cloister--was outside the temple, on the eastern...

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• Acts 3:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 3:1 Were going up for went up together, A.V. and T.R. Peter and John. The close friendship of these two apostles is remarkable. The origin of it appears to have been t...

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• Acts 3:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The basis of the present facts in prophecy:

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• Acts 3:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:8 ; 1 Timothy 1:13 ; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ; Acts 13:27 ; Acts 7:40 ; Exodus 32:1 ; Genesis 21:26 ; Genesis 39:8 ; Genesis 44:15 ; John 16:3 ; John 7:26 ; John 7:27 ; John 7...

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• Acts 3:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Fulfilled Prophecies Verify Unfulfilled Prophecies Acts 3:17-21 ; Acts 13:27-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Scripture chosen for today, is worth our thought. The first Scripture was spoken b...

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• Acts 3:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And now, brethren — A word full of courtesy and compassion, I know — He speaks to their heart, that through ignorance ye did it — which lessened, though it could not take away, the guilt. As did al...

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