Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And we are witnesses (kai hmeiv marturev). Compare "ye yourselves know" (verse Acts 10:37). Peter thus appeals to what the audience know and to what the disciples know. He made the same claim about personal witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus at Pentecost (Acts 2:32). Here Peter affirms full knowledge of the work of Jesus in Judea (for whole country including Galilee and Perea) and Jerusalem (given mainly in John's Gospel). In the Greek wn (which) is attracted into the genitive case to agree with the antecedent pantwn (all), a common enough idiom.
Whom also they slew (on kai aneilan). Second aorist active indicative of anairew with a as often in Acts (Acts 2:23; Acts 5:30). But note kai (also) in the old MSS., not in the Textus Receptus. They "also" slew him, went that far, "this crowning atrocity" (Vincent), kai could here be "even."
Hanging him on a tree (kremasantev epi culou). This same expression used by Peter in Acts 5:30 which see for discussion.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 3:1
Luke 1:2
Acts 1:8
Acts 10:37
Acts 12:2
Acts 16:24
Galatians 3:13
1 Peter 2:24
1 Peter 5:1
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