Acts 2:40

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying: Save yourselves from this wicked generation.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

In Context

39For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

41Then they that gladly received his word were immersed, and on that day there were added to them about three thousand souls.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:34Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 17:17Jesus answered and said: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me.

Mark 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me, and my words, in this sinful and adulterous generation, of him the Son of man also will be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.

John 21:25And there are also many other things that Jesus did; if they should be written, every one of them, I suppose that not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:38-42

Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem. 37 Now 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? 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. 39 For 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. 40 And with many other words did… Read the whole commentary →

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