Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 2:41
They that gladly received his word. Every believing penitent would
gladly receive it.
Were baptized. Not indefinitely in the future, but that day.
The same day there were added about three thousand souls.
Hackett, in his "Commentary on Acts", writes:
``It is proper to add that pools numerous and large which
encircled Jerusalem, as both those still in use, and as the
remains of others testify of at the present day, afforded
ample means for the celebration of the rite of baptism. The
habits of the East, as every traveler knows, would present no
obstacle to such a use of the public reservoirs.'
It has been objected to the immersion of the three thousand that the
apostles could not have done it in one day. We are not told that the
apostles only were the baptists, or even baptized at all. There were at
least 120 disciples there; perhaps even more on this great day. Perhaps
the Seventy were all there. But the apostles alone could have
discharged the office. There would be 250 to each one. Sixty persons
have been immersed easily in an hour by one person. At this rate the
whole work could have been accomplished by twelve men in about four
hours. The celebrated Chrysostom, aided by his elders, baptized
(immersed) 3,000 in a day in A.D. 404.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 28:19
John 8:28
John 14:12
Acts 2:41
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