31<\/strong>. them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem<\/em> ] The Apostles, and the body of Christ’s followers, were drawn from Galilee, insomuch that, before the Crucifixion, Galilans was a name by which they were known (Mar 14:70<\/span>).<\/p>\n who are his witnesses unto the people<\/em> ] The oldest MSS. read “who now are, &c.” St Paul has not mentioned the ascension of Jesus, but the addition of this word implies that He was no longer on earth that men might see Him. The Apostle also thus marks out what was the especial work of those who had been with Christ during His life.<\/p>\n And he was seen – <\/B>See the notes at the end of Matthew.<\/P> Many days – <\/B>Forty days, Act 1:3<\/span>.<\/P> Of them which came up – <\/B>By the apostles particularly. He was seen by others; but they are especially mentioned as having been chosen for this object, to bear witness to him, and as having been particularly qualified for it.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 31. He was seen many days<\/B><\/I>, c.] The thing was done but a very short time since and many of the witnesses are still alive, and ready to attest the fact of this resurrection in the most unequivocal manner.<\/P> <\/p>\n Seen many days; <\/B>forty days between his resurrection and ascension, Act 1:3<\/span>. Christ was seen, not only by the apostles, but of the Galilean women which came up with him unto Jerusalem, Mat 28:1<\/span>, and by above five hundred at once, 1Co 15:6<\/span>; so plentifully would God have this great article of our faith and object of our hope to be confirmed unto us. <\/P> <\/p>\n 31. he was seen many days of themwhich came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem,<\/B> &c.thatis, by those who, having gone out and in with Him in closest intimacyduring all His public ministry, which lay chiefly in Galilee, andhaving accompanied Him on His last journey to Jerusalem, could notpossibly be mistaken as to the identity of the risen One, and weretherefore unexceptionable and sufficient witnesses.<\/P><\/p>\n And he was seen many days<\/strong>,…. Forty days, at certain times,<\/p>\n of them which came up with him from Galilee<\/strong>; which though true of several women who followed him from Galilee, and to whom he appeared after his resurrection, as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and Salome the mother of Zebedee’s children, and others; yet is chiefly to be understood of the apostles of Christ, who were Galilaeans, and came with Christ from that country to Jerusalem, when he came thither to suffer and die:<\/p>\n who are his witnesses unto the people<\/strong>; not only of his resurrection, though of that chiefly, but of all that he did and suffered in Galilee and Judea.<\/p>\n Was seen for many days <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). The common verb (first aorist passive indicative of <\/SPAN><\/span>, to see) for the appearance of the Risen Christ, the one used by Paul of his own vision of Christ (1Co 15:8<\/span>), which is not reported by Luke here. For more days (than a few), the language means, forty in all (1:3<\/span>).<\/P> Of them that came up with him <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Dative (after <\/SPAN><\/span>) articular participle (second aorist active of <\/SPAN><\/span>) with associative instrumental case (<\/SPAN><\/span>), the very men who knew him best and who could not be easily deceived about the reality of his resurrection. But this fact rules Paul out on this point, for he had not fellowshipped with Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem.<\/P> Who are now his witnesses <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). The very point that Peter used to clinch his argument with such powerful effect (Acts 2:32<\/span>; Acts 3:15<\/span>). <\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “And He was seen many days,”<\/strong> (ho ophthe epi hemeras pleious) “Who appeared over a period (of many days),” for, forty days after His resurrection, before His ascension or rapture into heaven, Act 1:2-3<\/span>; Luk 24:49<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “Of them which came up with Him,”<\/strong> (tois sunanabasin auto) “To those who had come up in colleague with Him,” in close association or affinity with Him, His church, His bride-people, those chosen people who had companied With Him from the beginning of His ministry, Joh 15:16<\/span>; Joh 15:27<\/span>; Act 1:10-11<\/span>.<\/p>\n 3) “From Galilee to Jerusalem,”<\/strong> (apo tes Galilaias eis lerousalem) “From the area or region (of) Galilee to (into) Jerusalem,” from the place of His beginning ministry, until His ascension, Act 10:37<\/span>; Act 10:39-41<\/span>.<\/p>\n 4) “Who are His witnesses unto the people,”<\/strong> (oitines nun eisin martures autou pros ton laon) “Who are now (and hereafter progressively forever, as His church) witnesses of Him to the people, “the masses, Act 1:8<\/span>; Act 1:22<\/span>; Act 2:32<\/span>; 1Co 15:5-7<\/span>. This resurrection of Jesus’ testimony was not a mere matter of tradition, but a fact that could at the writing of both this book of Acts and of First Corinthians, still be attested by many living witnesses.<\/p>\n 31. After that he hath said that Christ came out of the grave, which was beset with the hired ministers of the adversaries, he addeth now that he appeared to many of the disciples, which bare faithful witness to the people. And he calleth them witnesses, either in respect of their office; because they were chosen for this purpose, as we have already said in the first chapter, (Act 1:8<\/span>\ud83d\ude09 or else declaring simply that they professed openly and freely that which they knew concerning Christ. Whereupon it followeth that the matter was made known openly (810) at Jerusalem. And the proof was not so light; because, in the fearful power of the enemies, who were ready and bent to resist, and did omit nothing, there were, notwithstanding, such as did openly affirm that Christ rose again, and were also such as saw that thing with their eyes; for if there had been any refutation in readiness, the scribes would not have neglected it. <\/p>\n (810) “ Probe fuisse testatem,” was well attested. <\/p>\n (31) And he was seen many days.<\/strong>The language is that of one who had conversed with the witnesses, and had convinced himself of the truth of their testimony. We find what the Apostle had in his thoughts in a more expanded form in 1Co. 15:3-8<\/span>.<\/p>\n Who are his witnesses.<\/strong>More accurately, who are now his witnesses.<\/em><\/p>\n Unto the people.<\/strong>The word is used in its distinctive sense as applied to those who were the<\/em> people of God. (Comp. Act. 26:17<\/span>; Act. 26:23<\/span>.)<\/p>\n 31<\/strong>. <\/strong> From Galilee witnesses<\/strong> The predictions are proved by the record, their fulfilment by living testimony.<\/p>\n Act 13:31-33<\/span> . . ] for several days<\/em> , as in Luk 4:25<\/span> ; Ngelsbach on the Iliad<\/em> , p. 284, Exo 3<\/span> . Instead of the argumentative , would be still more significant.<\/p>\n . . .] Thus Paul according to this narrative, like Luke in the Gospel, follows the<\/em> tradition which knows only Jewish<\/em> appearances of the Risen One (see on Mat 28:10<\/span> ). Comp. Act 1:4<\/span> .<\/p>\n ] quippe qui<\/em> .<\/p>\n . . .] we also<\/em> , on our part, engaged in the same work of preaching as those eye-witnesses, announce unto you the promise made to the fathers, that<\/em> (namely) God has completely fulfilled this<\/em> , etc.<\/p>\n . . .] contains the particular part of the ( the promise of the Messiah generally<\/em> ) which is announced. Entirely arbitrarily, Heumann, Heinrichs, Kuinoel, and others hold that it should be connected: , . . ., and that is without significance. This very repetition of has rhetorical emphasis; comp. Act 9:20<\/span> ; see Dissen, ad Dem. de cor<\/em> . p. 225; Bernhardy, p. 283.<\/p>\n ] stronger than the simple verb, Act 13:27<\/span> ; comp. the passages from Xenoph. in Sturz, Herod, v. 35: , Plat. Legg<\/em> . p. 958 B: , Polyb. i. 67. 1 : . , Mal 1:2<\/span>Mal 1:2<\/span> ; 3Ma 1:22 . Elsewhere not in the N.T., but comp. , Act 21:26<\/span> .<\/p>\n . ] for the benefit of their children<\/em> (descendants), us<\/em> . The prefixing of . . . has a peculiar emphasis.<\/p>\n ] by this, that He raised up Jesus (from the dead)<\/em> . This interpretation (Erasmus, Luther, Hammond, Clericus, Heumann, Morus, de Wette, Baumgarten, Lange, and others) is necessarily required by the connection, which is as follows: (1) The Jews have put to death Jesus, though innocent, and buried Him (Act 13:28-29<\/span> ). (2) But God has raised Him from the dead, as is certain from His appearance among His followers and their testimony (Act 13:30-31<\/span> ). (3) By this resurrection of Jesus<\/em> , God has completely fulfilled to us the promise, etc. (Act 13:32-33<\/span> ). (4) But the Raised One will, according to God’s assurance, never again die (Act 13:34-38<\/span> ). This, the only explanation accordant with the context, is confirmed by the purposely chosen , as, indeed, the fulfilment of the promise begun from the very appearance of Jesus has, although secured already essentially<\/em> (as Hofmann interprets the compound verb), only become complete<\/em> by His resurrection. It has been objected that would have to be added to , as in Act 13:34<\/span> ; but incorrectly, as the context makes this addition very superfluous, which yet is purposely added in Act 13:34<\/span> , in order that the contrast of might more strongly appear. The textual necessity of our interpretation excludes, accordingly, of itself the other<\/em> explanation (Castalio, Calvin, Beza, Grotius, Calovius, Wolf, Bengel, Michaelis, Rosenmller, Heinrichs, Kuinoel, Olshausen, Hofmann, Weissag. u. Erf<\/em> . II. p. 173, Schriftbew<\/em> . I. p. 123, and others), according to which is rendered like , prodire jubens, exhibens (Act 3:22<\/span> , Act 7:37<\/span> ). This rendering would hardly have been adopted and defended, had it not been thought necessary to understand Psa 2:7<\/span> of the appearance of Jesus upon earth.<\/p>\n ] denotes the as the event which took place according to (besides other scriptural passages) the saying in Psa 2:7<\/span> .<\/p>\n ] Formerly (see Wetstein) though not universally, yet frequently the first Psalm was wont not to be separately numbered, but, as an introduction to the Psalter and certainly composed for this object, to be written along with the second Psalm, as it is even now found in MSS. As, however, such a local citation of a passage is found neither in Paul’s writings nor elsewhere in the N.T., it must be assumed that Paul did not himself utter the , and that it was not even added by Luke; but that he took it over from his documentary source into which it had doubtless come, because it was esteemed particularly noteworthy that this prophecy should be found written on the very front of the Psalter.<\/p>\n . . .] in the historical sense of the Psalm composed by Solomon on his anointing: My son (as the theocratic king) thou art; I (no other) have this day begotten thee (made thee by thine anointing and installation to be this my son). But, according to the Messianic fulfilment of this divine saying, so far as it has been historically fulfilled (it is otherwise in Heb 1:5<\/span> ) especially by the resurrection of the Messiah: My Son (as the Messiah) thou art; I am He who has this day (on the day of the resurrection) begotten Thee, installed Thee into this divine Sonship by the resurrection (Rom 1:4<\/span> ), inasmuch, namely, as the resurrection was the actual guarantee, excluding all doubt, of that Sonship of Christ. Thus has God by the resurrection, after His humiliation, although He was from eternity God’s Son, constituted Him the Son of God (He has begotten Him). Comp. Act 2:36<\/span> . The expression is not to be illustrated from . . , Col 1:18<\/span> (against Baumgarten); because for denoting the installation into the divine Sonship the figure begotten suits admirably; but, as a new beginner of life (as Baumgarten explains it), Christ would by the resurrection not be begotten, but born. Comp. also Rom 8:29<\/span> . The , moreover, which to those interpreters, who explain the generally of the bringing forward Jesus, must appear without significance and included in the quotation only for the sake of completeness (as is, however, not the case even in Heb 1:5<\/span> ), forms an essential element of the prophecy in its relation to the connection.<\/p>\n 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 31. Who are his witnesses to the people<\/strong> ] Of our Saviour’s resurrection there were many witnesses, both living (as the angels, the women, the soldiers, the apostles, those 500 brethren at once, 1Co 15:6 ) and dead (such as were the earthquake, the empty grave, the stone rolled away, the clothes wrapt up together, &c.), and all little enough. But “why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?” Act 26:8<\/span> . See Trapp on “<\/em> Act 26:8 “<\/em> <\/p>\n 31<\/strong> .] The gives peculiar force to the sentence. Who are at this moment witnesses<\/strong> , living<\/em> witnesses; q. d. ‘I am not telling you a matter of the past<\/em> merely, but one made present to the people of the Jews ( ) by living and autoptic testimony.’<\/p>\n Act 13:31<\/span> . , see Milligan’s note on the word, Resurrection of our Lord<\/em> , p. 265; Witness of the Epistles<\/em> (1892), pp. 369, 377, 386; and Beyschlag, Leben Jesu<\/em> , i., p. 434 (second edition), cf.<\/em> Luk 24:34<\/span> , 1Co 15:5<\/span> ff. : with accusative of duration of time, cf.<\/em> Act 16:18<\/span> , Act 18:20<\/span> , Act 19:8<\/span> ; Act 19:10<\/span> ; Act 19:34<\/span> , Act 27:20<\/span> , cf.<\/em> Luk 4:25<\/span> ; Luk 18:4<\/span> ; in classical writers, but only in St. Luke in N.T., except Heb 11:30<\/span> , Vindici Lucan<\/em> , p. 53. : if we add , see critical notes, the word intimates that this announcement of Jesus as the Messiah was not first made by Paul, as some new thing, but that His Apostles were still bearing the same witness to the Jews ( ) as a living message in the same city in which Jesus had been crucified.<\/p>\n seen. Greek. optomai. App-106. <\/p>\n many days = for (Greek. epi.) many days. <\/p>\n of = by. <\/p>\n came up with Him. Greek. sunanabaino. Only here and Mar 15:41. <\/p>\n Galilee. All the Apostles, except Judas, were Galileans Compare Act 1:11; Act 2:7. Luk 23:49, Luk 23:55. <\/p>\n are. The texts add “now”. <\/p>\n witnesses. See Act 1:8. <\/p>\n 31.] The gives peculiar force to the sentence. Who are at this moment witnesses,-living witnesses; q. d. I am not telling you a matter of the past merely, but one made present to the people of the Jews ( ) by living and autoptic testimony.<\/p>\n Act 13:31. , by them that came up with Him) That last journey both presupposes all the rest, and is in itself the most momentous one.- , who now are) Paul mentions nothing as to his own vision of Him; for there was no need to descend into this detail in the beginning: nor does he say anything of himself as distinguished from Barnabas: wherefore, in Act 13:32, he speaks more generally.-, His) Christs: ch. Act 5:32; comp. note, ch. Act 2:32, This Jesus hath God raised up, whose (Gods) witnesses we all are; ch. Act 10:41; 1Co 15:15.-, the people) Answering to in the following ver.<\/p>\n he was: Act 1:3, Act 1:11, Act 10:41, Mat 28:16, Mar 16:12-14, Luk 24:36-42, Joh 20:19-29, Joh 21:1-14, 1Co 15:5-7 <\/p>\n who: Act 1:8, Act 1:22, Act 2:32, Act 3:15, Act 5:32, Act 10:39, Luk 24:48, Joh 15:27, Heb 2:3, Heb 2:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Mar 16:7 – there Act 10:40 – General Act 17:31 – in that Act 26:8 – General Rev 11:3 – witnesses<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Act 13:31. As a rebuke to the murderers of Jesus, God saw to it that many “disinterested” people would have full opportunity to see Jesus after his resurrection.<\/p>\n Act 13:31. And he was seen many days of them. This was the most convincing proof of the Messiah- ship of Jesus. It was a proof which the apostles in their preaching ever used with great power. With these first teachers of Christianity the resurrection of their crucified Master rested on no tradition, however well supported and attested, but on the testimony of many living men who had seen, and touched, and talked with the Lord Jesus after that He was risen from the dead.<\/p>\n Which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. This refers especially to those Galilean disciples who were with Him on His last journey to Jerusalem. Some of the holy women are here included, and many others whose names are not preserved. We know from Pauls letter to the Corinthians that there were over five hundred of these eye-witnesses of some part or other of the Lords second life on earth (1Co 15:6).<\/p>\n See notes one verse 30<\/p>\n And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. 31. them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem ] The Apostles, and the body of Christ’s followers, were drawn from Galilee, insomuch that, before the Crucifixion, Galilans was … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Acts 13:31”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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