Acts 10:38

Acts 10:38

36 The word which God sent to the¹ children of Israel, ^apreaching peace through Jesus Christ—^bHe is Lord of all—

37 that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and ^abegan from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:

38 how ^aGod anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who ^bwent about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, ^cfor God was with Him.

39 And we are ^awitnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom¹ they ^bkilled by hanging on a tree.

40 Him ^aGod raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,

41 ^anot to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us ^bwho ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

42 And ^aHe commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify ^bthat it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge ^cof the living and the dead.

43 ^aTo Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, ^bwhoever believes in Him will receive ^cremission of sins.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth—rather, "Jesus of Nazareth (as the burden of that 'published word'), how God anointed Him."

with the Holy Ghost and with power—that is, at His baptism, thus visibly proclaiming Him MESSIAH, "the Lord's Christ." See Luke 4:18-21. For it is not His unction for personal holiness at His incarnation that is referred to—as many of the Fathers and some moderns take it—but His investiture with the insignia of the Messianic office, in which He presented Himself after His baptism to the acceptance of the people.

went about doing good—holding up the beneficent character of all His miracles, which was their predicted character (Isaiah 35:5-6, etc.).

healing all that were oppressed of the devil—whether in the form of demoniacal possessions, or more indirectly, as in her "whom Satan had bound with a spirit of infirmity eighteen years" (Luke 13:16); thereby showing Himself the Redeemer from all evil.

for God was with him—Thus gently does the apostle rise to the supreme dignity of Christ with which he closes, accommodating himself to his hearers.

Acts 10:36-38

the word . . . sent unto the children of Israel—for to them (he would have them distinctly know) the Gospel was first preached, even as the facts of it took place on the special theater of the ancient economy.

preaching peace by Jesus Christ—the glorious sum of all Gospel truth (I Corinthians 1:20-22).

he is Lord of all—exalted to embrace under the canopy of His peace, Jew and Gentile alike, whom the blood of His Cross had cemented into one reconciled and accepted family of God (Ephesians 2:13-18).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 10:38:**

Psalms 119:68
Daniel 9:24
Matthew 9:35
John 10:32
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