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Acts 2:38 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.Acts 2:38 · King James Version
What Acts 2:38 means
Peter says this to a crowd that had just realized they helped kill their Messiah and asked what to do. Repent comes first, a change of mind that turns you around. Baptism follows as the public side of it. And the gift is promised to people with nothing to offer but sorrow.
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Acts 2:38 in context
36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39For 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.
40And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
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Key words (Strong's)
- remissionaphesisrelease from bondage or imprisonment, forgiveness or pardon, of sins , remission of the…G859 →
- baptizedbaptizōto dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge , to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to…G907 →
- receivelambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- Repentmetanoeōto change one's mindG3340 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- PeterpetrosPeter = " a rock or a stone" , one of the twelve disciples of JesusG4074 →
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We have seen the wonderful effect of the pouring out of the Spirit, in its influence upon the preachers of the gospel. Peter, in all his life, never spoke at the rate that he had done now, with such fulness, perspicuity, and power.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 37-41