Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
His servant Jesus (ton paida Ihsoun). This phrase occurs in Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 52:13 about the Messiah except the name "Jesus" which Peter adds, the first part of the quotation is from Exodus 3:6; 5:30. The LXX translated the Hebrew ebhedh by paiv, the servant of Jehovah being a Messianic designation. But the phrase "servant of God" (paiv qeou) is applied also to Israel (Luke 1:54) and to David (Luke 1:69; Acts 4:25). Paul terms himself doulov qeou (Titus 1:1). Paiv is just child (boy or girl), and it was also used of a slave (Matthew 8:6, Matthew 8:8, Matthew 8:13). But it is not here uiov (son) that Peter uses, but paiv. Luke quotes Peter as using it again in this Messianic sense in Acts 3:26; Acts 4:27, Acts 4:30.
Whom ye delivered up (on umeiv men paredwkate). Note emphatic use of umeiv (ye). No de to correspond to men. First aorist active (k aorist) plural indicative of paradidwmi (usual form paredote, second aorist).
When he (ekeinou). Emphatic pronoun, that one, in contrast with "ye" (umeiv), genitive absolute with krinantov, here the nearest word (Pilate), the latter.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 3:13:
Acts 3:26
Acts 7:35
Acts 7:52
Acts 22:3
Romans 9:4
1 Peter 1:21
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