Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Therefore (to sum up all in one brief word), let all the house of Israel - to whom, as the then existing people of God, the proclamation behoved to be first formally made,
Know assuredly - know by indisputable facts, know by fulfilled predictions, know by the seal of the Holy Spirit set upon both,
That God hath made - for it was Peter's special object to show that these novel and startling events, instead of crossing the purposes and arrangements of the God of Israel, were just His own majestic steps. That same Jesus, х touton (G5126) ton (G3588) Ieesoun (G2424)] - 'this very Jesus' (as in Acts 2:32, and Acts 1:11),
Whom ye have crucified. 'The sting (says Bengel) is at the close:' very true; but he who thus smites hastens in the very next words to heal:
Both Lord and Christ. (Our version rightly retains the word "both" х kai (G2532)], omitted in the Elzevir, though retained in the Stephanic form of the Received Text. The evidence for it is decisive.) Not the "Christ" merely, for that was scarcely enough to bring about the desired impression; but the "Lord" also, whom David in spirit adored, and to whom every knee must bow in subjection-this was fitted to make them "look upon Him whom they had pierced and mourn for Him.'
Glorious Fruit of this first Preaching of Christ, in the Conversion and Baptism of about three thousand souls-Beautiful Beginnings of the Christian Church (2:37-47)