UntitPled Sermon

The Day of Pentecost

Acts 2:1–4 KJV 1900

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 2:46–47 (Word Studies in the New Testament): With one accord (ὁμοθυμαδὸν). See on Matt. 18:19.

From house to house (κατʼ οἶκον). Better, as Rev., at home, contrasted with in the temple. Compare Philem. 2; Col. 4:15; 1 Cor. 16:19.

Did eat their meat (μετελάμβανον τροφῆς). Rev., take their food. Partake would be better, giving the force of μετά, with. Note the imperfect: “continued to partake.”

Singleness (ἀφελότητι). Only here in New Testament. Derived from ἀ, not, and φελλεύς, stony ground. Hence of something simple or plain.

47. Added (προσετίθει). Imperfect: kept adding.

Such as should be saved (τοὺς σωζομένους). Lit., as Rev., those that were being saved. The rendering of the A. V. would require the verb to be in the future, whereas it is the present participle. Compare 1 Cor. 1:18. Salvation is a thing of the present, as well as of the past and future. The verb is used in all these senses in the New Testament. Thus, we were saved (not are, as A. V.), Rom. 8:24; shall or shalt be saved, Rom. 10:9, 13; ye are being saved, 1 Cor. 15:2. “Godliness, righteousness, is life, is salvation. And it is hardly necessary to say that the divorce of morality and religion must be fostered and encouraged by failing to note this, and so laying the whole stress either on the past or on the future—on the first call, or on the final change. It is, therefore, important that the idea of salvation as a rescue from sin, through the knowledge of God in Christ, and therefore a progressive condition, a present state, should not be obscured, and we can but regret such a translation as Acts 2:47, ‘The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved,’ where the Greek implies a different idea” (Lightfoot, “On a Fresh Revision of the New Testament”).

To the church. See on Matt. 16:18.