Acts 2:39 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:39

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

KJV

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

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Commentary

1 voice

Oecumenius

Commentary on Acts (550)

And by saying, "For to you is the promise and to your children and to all who are far off, and to those who are near," he indicates the greatness of the gift, that it is sufficient not only for them but also for their …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the promise - That is, the promise respecting the particular thing of which he was speaking - the influences of the Holy Spirit. This promise he had adduced in the beginning of his discourse Act 2:17, and he now applies it to them. As the Spirit was promised to descend on Jews and their sons and daughters, it was applicable to them in the circumstances in which they then were.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2586: “A Far-reaching Promise” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1898)

WE learn from the text a fact worth remembering, namely, that in the first stage of the Christian ministry, the thing to be aimed at is that men should be pricked in the heart. Then, in the second stage, the thing to be desired is that they should gladly receive the Word of God. Notice what is said in the 37th verse—"When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart." Then in the 41st verse—"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized." Hence, in the beginning, the preacher's business is not to convert men, but the very reverse!

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For the promise--of the Holy Ghost, through the risen Saviour, as the grand blessing of the new covenant. all afar off--the Gentiles, as in Eph 2:17, but "to the Jew first."

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὑμῖν	humin	To you	G4771 →
γάρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ἐπαγγελία	epangelia	promise	G1860 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
τέκνοις	teknois	children	G5043 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πᾶσιν	pasin	to all	G3956 →
τοῖς	tois	those	G3588 →
εἰς	eis	at	G1519 →
μακράν,	makran	a distance,	G3112 →
ὅσους	hosous	as many as	G3745 →
ἂν	an	maybe	G302 →
προσκαλέσηται	proskalesētai	may call to Himself	G4341 →
κύριος	kurios	[the] Lord	G2962 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ἡμῶν.	hēmōn	of us.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
leads to
- Joel 2:28
  And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Acts 2:17
  ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
- Isaiah 59:21
  “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your…
- John 7:37–39
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Proverbs 1:23
  If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
Through
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
  For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
  But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- 1 Peter 1:6–7
  In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials