Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 2:4
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. All the disciples
present. To be "filled" implies that the human spirit within was
overwhelmed by, or immersed in, the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the
Spirit was not a sprinkling, but an outpouring that overwhelmed the
human spirit.
Began to speak. This was the "Beginning". See Luke 24:47
Acts 11:15.
With other tongues. "In other languages" (Revised Version). In the
languages of all the different countries from which Jews had come up to
Pentecost. Many would be unable to understand the Hebrew dialect of
Judea in that period, and hence, they must be preached to in the tongue
of their own country if they understood. That the gospel on this, the
first day the Great Commission was ever preached, was preached in all
tongues, symbolized the fact that it is for all nations.
As the Spirit gave them utterance. They were not allowed to preach
the Great Commission until now, in order that every word uttered on
this day might be the word of the Spirit, not of man. The words were to
be spoken to an audience, not of those in Jerusalem only, but to our
whole race in all time, in order to show how sinners are to be saved
under the gospel.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Mark 16:17
John 14:17
John 16:8
John 20:23
Acts 1:4
Acts 2:4
Acts 8:14
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Titus 3:6
1 John 5:6
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