Acts 4:25 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 4:25

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

BSB

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ASV

who by the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?

KJV

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book III (220)

By thus departing from Judaism itself, when they exchanged the obligations and burdens of the law for the liberty of the gospel, they were fulfilling the psalm, "Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast away their yoke from us; "and this indeed (they did) after that "the heathen raged, and the people imagined vain devices; "after that "the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers took their counsel together against the Lord, and against His Christ." What did the apostles thereupon suffer?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Who by the mouth of thy servant David has said,.... In Psa 2:1 from whence we learn, that that psalm, though it is without a title, and does not bear David's name, yet is one of his and so Kimchi says, that David composed it at the beginning of his reign; though Aben Ezra thinks, that it was composed by one of the singers for him, on the day he was anointed; yet he afterwards seems to doubt of it, and on Psa 2:7 says, they are the words of David, or the words of the singer.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Who by the mouth ... - , Psa 2:1-2. This is a strong, solemn testimony to the inspiration of David. It is a declaration of the apostles, made in solemn prayer, that God himself spake by the mouth of David. This is the second part of their prayer. In the first, they acknowledge the right of God to rule; in this, they appeal to a prophecy; they plead that this was a thing foretold; and as God had foreseen it and foretold it, they appealed to him to protect them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πατρὸς	patros	father	G3962 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
πνεύματος	pneumatos	[the] Spirit	G4151 →
ἁγίου	hagiou	Holy	G40 →
στόματος	stomatos	through [the] mouth	G4750 →
Δαυὶδ	Dauid	of David	G1138 →
παιδός	paidos	servant	G3816 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
εἰπών·	eipōn	having spoken:	G2036 →
ἱνατί	hinati	so why	G2443 →G5101 →
ἐφρύαξαν	ephruaxan	did rage	G5433 →
ἔθνη	ethnē	[the] Gentiles	G1484 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λαοὶ	laoi	peoples	G2992 →
ἐμελέτησαν	emeletēsan	did devise	G3191 →
κενά;	kena	vain things?	G2756 →

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
Acts 1:16
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
leads to
- Psalms 41:9
  Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- John 13:18
  I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- Psalms 55:12–15
  For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- Acts 1:20
  “For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
Through
Acts 2:30
But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
leads to
- Psalms 132:11–18
  The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
- Psalms 89:3–4
  You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
- Jeremiah 33:14–15
  Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
- 2 Samuel 7:11–16
  and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house…

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