Acts 3:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. ”

• Acts 3:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Unto you first - To you who are Jews. This was the direction, that the gospel should be first preached to the Jews, beginning at Jerusalem, Luke 24:47 . Jesus himself also confined his ministry...

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• Acts 3:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Unto you first God, having (k) raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. (k) Given to the world, or raised from the dead, and advanced to...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  iniquities. Greek. poneria. App-128.

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• Acts 3:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. He hath raised up his Son. He gathereth out of the words of Moses that Christ is now revealed. But the words do seem to import no such thing; yet doth he reason fitly thus, because the b...

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• Acts 3:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1746 HOLINESS THE GREATEST BLESSING Acts 3:26 . Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities . THE...

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• Acts 3:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Unto you first, God, having raised up - As you are the children of the...

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• Acts 3:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Unto you first— Accordingly the gospel was, by the grace of our blessed Redeemer, every where offered first to the Jews. Had it been otherwise, humanly speaking, many who were converted in this met...

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• Acts 3:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Unto you first God, having raised up - not (as we think) 'rais...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Unto you first .... — Here again we note, even in the very turn of the phrase as well as of the thought, an agreement with St. Paul’s formula of the purpose of God being manifested “to the Jew first...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Unto you first, God having raised his Son Jesus ,.... Which may be understood, either of the incarnation of Christ, and his exhibition in the flesh; which is sometimes expressed by raising him up, a...

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• Acts 3:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Ver. 26. To bless you ] Ephesians 1:3 .

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• Acts 3:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Yea, and all the prophets That succeeded Moses, particularly from Samuel, have likewise foretold these days The days of the Messiah, which, by the singular favour of God to you, ye are now so hap...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Unto you first; the Jews and inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are the lost sheep of the house of Israel. St. Peter did not yet know, that the Gentiles should be called, until he was taught it by the v...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  You remember, dear friends, how Peter denied his Lord in the time of his trial. Now notice what a change was wrought in him after the Holy Spirit had fallen upon him on the day of Pentecost. We have...

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• Acts 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A final exhortation:

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• Acts 3:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:5-8 ; 1 Peter 1:3 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; Acts 1:8 ; Acts 13:26 ; Acts 13:32 ; Acts 13:33 ; Acts 13:46 ; Acts 13:47 ; Acts 18:4-6 ; Acts 26:20 ; Acts 28:23-28 ; Acts 3:15 ; Acts 3:20 ;...

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• Acts 3:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  To bless you, by turning you from your iniquities — Which is the great Gospel blessing.

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