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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

使徒行传 3:20

這樣,那安樂的日子,必從主面前來到,並且他必把為你們預先選定的基督(耶穌)差來。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Courage;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Types;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Peter;   Sanctification;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;   Second Coming of Christ, the;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Pentateuch;   Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Biblical Theology;   Time;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coming of Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Leviticus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cross, Crucifixion;   Heavens, New;   Hope;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acts of the Apostles;   Hope;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Paul the Apostle;   Person of Christ;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christ, Christology;   Eschatology;   Gospel (2);   Mediator;   People ;   Preaching;   Resurrection of Christ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Parable;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hour;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, the Exaltation of;   Messiah;   Peter, Simon;   Regeneration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Simon Cephas;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
主 也 必 差 遣 所 预 定 给 你 们 的 基 督 耶 稣 降 临 。

Contextual Overview

12 When Peter saw this, he said to them, "People of Israel, why are you surprised? You are looking at us as if it were our own power or goodness that made this man walk. 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, gave glory to Jesus, his servant. But you handed him over to be killed. Pilate decided to let him go free, but you told Pilate you did not want Jesus. 14 You did not want the One who is holy and good but asked Pilate to give you a murderer instead. 15 And so you killed the One who gives life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses to this. 16 It was faith in Jesus that made this crippled man well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of trust in Jesus, and you all saw it happen! 17 "Brothers and sisters, I know you did those things to Jesus because neither you nor your leaders understood what you were doing. 18 God said through the prophets that his Christ would suffer and die. And now God has made these things come true in this way. 19 So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest. 20 And he will send Jesus, the One he chose to be the Christ. 21 But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time comes when all things will be made right again. God told about this time long ago when he spoke through his holy prophets.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 17:31, Matthew 16:27, Matthew 24:3, Matthew 24:30-36, Mark 13:26, Mark 13:30-37, Luke 19:11, Luke 21:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Hebrews 9:28, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 19:11-16

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:22 - I say Acts 3:26 - sent Acts 8:35 - preached Colossians 1:28 - Whom

Cross-References

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."
Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.
Genesis 35:18
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.
Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older, the woman took him to the king's daughter, and she adopted the baby as her own son. The king's daughter named him Moses, because she had pulled him out of the water.
1 Samuel 1:20
So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him."
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"The virgin will be pregnant. She will have a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means "God is with us."
Acts 17:26
God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall send Jesus Christ,.... Or "that he may send Jesus Christ", as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it: not in person, for this regards neither his first, nor his second coming, both which might be terrible to the awakened Jews; the former, because he had been sent, and was come, and was gone again; and therefore might fear there was no hope for them, who had denied him, and crucified him; the latter, because they might conclude he would be sent, and come to take vengeance on them, when they should look upon him whom they had pierced with horror and trembling; but here it regards his being sent, and his coming in the ministration of the word, and by his Spirit, to the comfort of their souls:

which before was preached unto you; in the writings of the Old Testament, in the books of Moses, and of the Prophets, Acts 3:22 or, as it is read in the Alexandrian copy, and in other copies, and in the Complutensian edition, and in the Syriac and Arabic versions, who was "predetermined" or "prepared for you"; that is, in the purposes, council, and covenant of God. The Ethiopic version reads, "whom he before anointed"; to be prophet, priest, and King; and from each of these considerations much comfort might be drawn by sensible sinners.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall send ... - Acts 1:1 l. Under this economy of things, he shall send Jesus Christ, that is, the Messiah, to teach people; to redeem them; to save them; to judge the world; to gather his people to himself; and to condemn the wicked. Under this economy they were then. This, therefore, was an argument why they should repent and turn to God, that they might escape in the day of judgment.

Which before was preached ... - Who has been proclaimed as the Messiah. The name “Jesus Christ” is equivalent here to “the Messiah.” The Messiah had been proclaimed to the Jews as about to come. In his time was to be the period of refreshing. He had come; and they were under the economy in which the blessings of the Messiah were to be enjoyed. This does not refer to his personal ministry, or to the preaching of the apostles, but to the fact that the Messiah had been a long time announced to them by the prophets as about to come. All the prophets had preached him as the hope of the nation. It may be remarked, however, that there is here a difference in the manuscripts. A large majority of them read προκεχειρισμενον prokecheirismenon, who was designated or appointed, instead of who was preached. This reading is approved by Griesbach, Knapp, Bengel, etc. It was followed in the ancient Syriac, the Arabic, etc., and is undoubtedly the true reading.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:20. Which before was preached unto you — Instead of προκεκηρυγμενον, before preached, ABCDE, fifty-three others, both the Syriac, all the Arabic, the Armenian, Chrysostom, and others, have προκεχειρισμενον, who was before designed, or appointed; and this is without doubt the true reading. Christ crucified was the person whom God had from the beginning appointed or designed for the Jewish people. It was not a triumphant Messiah which they were to expect; but one who was to suffer and die. Jesus was this person; and by believing in him, as thus suffering and dying for their sins, he should be again sent, in the power of his Spirit, to justify and save them.


 
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