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97581 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.7 (Matthew Henry)
I. One thing that magnified his deliverance was that it was a signal answer to prayer ( Acts 12:5 ): Peter was kept in prison with a great deal of care, so that it was …
97582 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.10 (Matthew Henry)
… 34:7 ), and therefore they need not fear, though a host of enemies encamp against them, Psalms 27:3. Wherever the people of God are, and however surrounded, they have …
97583 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.16 (Matthew Henry)
7. When this was done, the angel departed from him, and left him to himself. He was out of danger from his enemies, and needed no guard. He knew where he was, and how …
97584 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.23 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Luke 7:24, 7:27 ), of Christ’s, Luke 9:52. When the damsel was confident it was Peter, because she knew his voice, they thought it was because he that stood at the door …
97585 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.26 (Matthew Henry)
(7.) Peter sent the account to others of his friends: Go, show these things to James, and to the brethren with him, who perhaps were met together in another place …
97586 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7-2:9. Barnabas, it is likely, knew himself designed for this service as well as Paul. Yet they would not thrust themselves into this harvest, though it appeared …
97587 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.7 (Matthew Henry)
III. Their ordination, pursuant to these orders: not to the ministry in general (Barnabas and Saul had both of them been ministers long before this), but to a particular …
97588 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.31 (Matthew Henry)
… , Deuteronomy 7:7, 7:8. They were beloved purely for the fathers’ sakes, Romans 11:28 .
97589 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.36 (Matthew Henry)
(7.) That he had raised up men, inspirited from heaven, to deliver them out of the hands of those that invaded their rights, and oppressed them after their settlement …
97590 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.38 (Matthew Henry)
… 26:7 ); why then should they entertain it so coldly, now that it was brought to them? Now,
97591 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.63 (Matthew Henry)
… , Mark 7:27. 2. They charge them with the refusal of it: “ You put it from you; you will not accept of it; nay, you will not so much as bear the offer of it, but take it as an affront …
97592 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.72 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:55 ), and Paul’s, Acts 13:9. The more we relish the comforts and encouragements we meet with in the power of godliness, and the fuller our hearts are of them …
97593 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7-3:9. But observe what it was that animated them: They spoke boldly in the Lord, in his strength, and trusting in him to bear them out; not depending upon any thing …
97594 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.7 (Matthew Henry)
V. The division which this occasioned in the city ( Acts 14:4 ): The multitude of the city was divided into two parties, and both active and vigorous. Among the rulers …
97595 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.23 (Matthew Henry)
… 25:7 ), and now you will no longer be excused in these vanities, but must turn from them. Note, 1. God’s patience with us hitherto should lead us to repentance, and …
97596 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.24 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Ezekiel 7:19 ), nor will those that know how to value their own souls be satisfied with them; but the apostles put themselves in as sharers in the divine beneficence …
97597 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 15:7-15:11. What Paul and Barnabas discoursed of, Acts 15:12. And, lastly, what James proposed for the settling of this matter, Acts 15:13-15:21. IV. The result of this …
97598 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.4 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7. They came from Judea, pretending perhaps to be sent by the apostles at Jerusalem, at least to be countenanced by them. Having a design to spread their notions …
97599 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.7 (Matthew Henry)
III. The expedient pitched upon for preventing the mischief of this dangerous notion, and silencing those that vented it, as well as quieting the minds of …
97600 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.11 (Matthew Henry)
… 32:7, 32:8. Here is a direction to the pastors of the churches, when difficulties arise, to come together in solemn meetings for mutual advice and encouragement …