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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Acts 4:12

The Way of Salvation August 15, 1858 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12; Acts 4:12 . It is a very happy circumstance when the servants of God are able to turn everything to account in their ministry. Now, the apostle Peter was summoned before the priests and Sadducees, the chief of his nation, to answer for having restored a man who was lame from his mother's... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 4:1-37

Chapter 4Now as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead ( Acts 4:1-2 ).The Sadducees, who were the spiritual leaders in those days . . . the priesthood was mostly made up of Sadducees . . . the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection, in angels, or in spirits. So they were very upset over the preaching of the resurrection.... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 4:1-37

Acts 4:1 . The captain of the temple was the captain of the watch, and saw that the levites performed their duty day and night. He beat them and set fire to their garments, if he found them asleep on their post. Hence the phrase, Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments. Revelation 16:15. Acts 4:3 . They laid hands on them, and put them in hold. Confined them, it would seem, in a place in the temple, used for that purpose. In the next chapter we find the apostles again... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 4:1-22

Acts 4:1-22And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them.The captain of the templewas an officer of a sort which Luke mentions in the plural in his Gospel (Luke 22:4), and is several times mentioned in the Old Testament, as in Jeremiah 20:1. This officer, with his subordinates, had charge of the Levites, especially of those who kept the night watch in the temple. A hint at the forms and ceremonies which accompanied his duties... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 4:12

Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other.Salvation in none otherThis is--1. The substance of every apostolic announcement.2. The experience of every pardoned sinner.3. The strength of every courageous confession.4. The foundation of all missionary preaching of the Church. (J. P. Lange, D. D.)Salvation in Christ aloneI. Salvation is a subject of world-wide interest, for all need it.1. The infant at birth needs salvation, and unless kindly hands “save” it, and minister to its necessities,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 4:12

12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Ver. 12. For there is no other name ] We have no co-saviour, we need no other master of requests in heaven, but Christ. Say we of Popish saints and mediators, as that heathen did, Contemno minutulos istos deos modo Iovem propitium habeam. William Tracy, Esq., in Henry VIII’s time, made it in his will, That he would have no funeral pomp at his burial, that he passed... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 4:12

is there: Acts 10:42, Acts 10:43, Matthew 1:21, Mark 16:15, Mark 16:16, John 3:36, John 14:6, 1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 Timothy 2:6, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 12:25, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12, Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:10, Revelation 20:15 under: Acts 2:5, Genesis 7:19, Job 41:11, Psalms 45:17, Colossians 1:23 Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - my salvation Leviticus 16:17 - no man Numbers 35:32 - General Psalms 3:8 - Salvation Isaiah 28:16 - Behold Isaiah 43:11 - General Hosea 13:4 - for... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 4:12

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.There is no other name whereby we must he saved — The apostle uses a beautiful gradation, from the temporal deliverance which had been wrought for the poor cripple, by the power of Christ, to that of a much nobler and more important kind, which is wrought by Christ for impotent and sinful souls. He therein follows the admirable custom of his great Lord and Master, who... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 4:12

12. Salvation in any other As the building cannot be saved without the corner stone, so the world cannot be saved without this name. Be saved From the fact that the Greek word for saved is applied to the restoring of the lame-born, some commentators have thought that the salvation here named must also be of a temporal nature. But it is plain that Peter passes from a salvation which only the lame-born needs to a salvation they all needed, and that all men need. It is very absurd to... read more

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