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Ask a Questionhealed--kept healing, denoting successive acts of mercy till it went over "all" that needed. There is something unusually grand and pictorial in this touch of description.
falling headlong, &c.--This information supplements, but by no means contradicts, what is said in Mt 27:5.
all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us--in the close intimacies of a three years' public life.
was numbered--"voted in" by general suffrage. with the eleven apostles--completing the broken Twelve.
all the people saw him, &c.--as they assembled at the hour of public prayer, in the temple courts; so that the miracle had the utmost publicity.
foretold of these days--of Messiah; all pointing to "the time of reformation" (Heb 9:10), though with more or less distinctness.
thy hand and thy counsel determined...to be done--that is, "Thy counsel" determined to be done by "Thy hand."
Stephen, &c.--As this and the following names are all Greek, it is likely they were all of the "Grecian" class, which would effectually restore mutual confidence.
not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake--What he said, and the power with which he spake it, were alike resistless.
avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian--going farther in the heat of his indignation than he probably intended.
an angel of the Lord--rather, "the Angel of the Covenant," who immediately calls Himself Jehovah (Compare Ac 7:38).
were baptized, both men and women--the detection of Simon's frauds helping to extend and deepen the effects of Philip's preaching.
that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost--Spiritual ambition here shows itself the key to this wretched man's character.
And he was with them, coming in and going out at Jerusalem--for fifteen days, lodging with Peter (Ga 1:18).
the disciples sent unto Peter--showing that the disciples generally did not possess miraculous gifts [Bengel].
upon the housetop--the flat roof, the chosen place in the East for cool retirement. the sixth hour--noon.
they of the circumcision...were astonished...because that on the Gentiles also was poured out, &c.--without circumcision.
the Greeks--that is, Gentile proselytes; for to the heathen, as usual, he only turned when rejected by the Jews (Ac 18:6).
be at charges with them--that is, defray the expense of the sacrifices legally required of them, along with his own, which was deemed a mark of Jewish generosity.
took Paul, and drew him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut--that the murder they meant to perpetrate might not pollute that holy place.
the chief captain--"the chiliarch," or tribune of the Roman cohort, whose full number was one thousand men.
Except...this one voice...Touching the resurrection, &c.--This would recall to the Pharisees present their own inconsistency, in befriending him then and now accusing him.
because I doubted of such manner of questions--The "I" is emphatic. "I," as a Roman judge, being at a loss how to deal with such matters.
Jacob said, Esau my brother is a hairy man--It is remarkable that his scruples were founded, not on the evil of the act, but on the risk and consequences of deception.
the rest of the acts of Jeroboam--None of the threatenings denounced against this family produced any change in his policy or government.
appear before God--in acts of worship, the terms used in the command for the stated personal appearance of the Jews at the sanctuary.
Contrasted is the lot of the pious who will praise God, and, acting under His direction, will destroy the power of the wicked, and exalt that of the righteous.
vanity--all sorts of sinful acts (Job 11:11; Isa 5:18).
that he might go to his own place--A euphemistic or softened expression of the awful future of the traitor, implying not only destined habitation but congenial element.