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New Life Version

Acts 3:24

All the early preachers who have spoken from Samuel until now have told of these days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Courage;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Zeal, Religious;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophecy;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Samuel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Samuel;   Transfiguration;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Messiah;   Prophet;   Samuel;   Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christ, Christology;   Day;   Eschatology;   Gospel (2);   Inspiration and Revelation;   People ;   Peter;   Preaching;   Samuel ;   Scripture (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Parable;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hour;   Just one;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;   Samuel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Foretell;   Peter, Simon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Samuel;   Simon Cephas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also foretold these days.
King James Version (1611)
Yea and all the Prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretold of these dayes.
King James Version
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
English Standard Version
And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.
New American Standard Bible
"And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken from Samuel and his successors onward, have also announced these days.
New Century Version
Samuel, and all the other prophets who spoke for God after Samuel, told about this time now.
Amplified Bible
"Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.
Legacy Standard Bible
And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also proclaimed these days.
Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
Contemporary English Version
Samuel and all the other prophets who came later also spoke about what is now happening.
Complete Jewish Bible
Indeed, all the prophets announced these days, starting with Sh'mu'el and continuing through all who followed.
Darby Translation
And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Samuel, and all the other prophets who spoke for God after Samuel, said that this time would come.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.
George Lamsa Translation
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, and preached have likewise foretold of these days.
Good News Translation
And all the prophets who had a message, including Samuel and those who came after him, also announced what has been happening these days.
Lexham English Bible
And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed him have spoken about and proclaimed these days.
Literal Translation
And also all the prophets, from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, also before announced these days.
American Standard Version
Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Bible in Basic English
And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.
Hebrew Names Version
Yes, and all the prophets from Shemu'el and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
International Standard Version
"Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who followed him, also predicted these days.
Etheridge Translation
And the prophets, all of them from Shamuel and they who were after him, spake and proclaimed concerning these days.
Murdock Translation
And all the prophets that have been, from Samuel and those after him, have spoken and proclaimed of these days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the prophetes also fro Samuel & thencefoorth, as many as haue spoken, haue lykewise tolde you of these dayes.
English Revised Version
Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
World English Bible
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed, whosoever have spoken, have also foretold these days.
Weymouth's New Testament
Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken--have also announced the coming of this present time.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle prophetis fro Samuel and aftirward, that spaken, telden these daies.
Update Bible Version
Yes and all the prophets from Samuel and those that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the prophets also from Samuel, and those that follow, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold these days.
New English Translation
And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.
New King James Version
Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold [fn] these days.
New Living Translation
"Starting with Samuel, every prophet spoke about what is happening today.
New Revised Standard
And all the prophets, as many as have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, also predicted these days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, indeed, all the prophets, - from Samuel and those following after, as many as have spoken, have even announced these days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days.
Revised Standard Version
And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Also all the Prophetes from Samuel and thence forth as many as have spoken have in lykwyse tolde of these dayes.
Young's Literal Translation
and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all the prophetes from Samuel and thence forth as many as haue spoken, haue likewyse tolde of these dayes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
afterwards Samuel and all that prophesied after him, have likewise foretold these times.
THE MESSAGE
"All the prophets from Samuel on down said the same thing, said most emphatically that these days would come. These prophets, along with the covenant God made with your ancestors, are your family tree. God's covenant-word to Abraham provides the text: ‘By your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.' But you are first in line: God, having raised up his Son, sent him to bless you as you turn, one by one, from your evil ways."
Simplified Cowboy Version
"Samuel started it, and all the prophets have repeated him about the days to come.

Contextual Overview

12 When Peter saw this, he said to them, "Jewish men, why are you surprised at this? Why do you look at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or holy lives? 13 The God of our fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, has done this. He has honored His Son Jesus. He is the One you handed over to Pilate. You turned your backs on Him after Pilate had decided to let Him go free. 14 But you turned your backs against the Holy and Right One. Then you asked for a man who had killed someone to go free. 15 You killed the very One Who made all life. But God raised Him from the dead. We saw Him alive. 16 You see and know this man here. He has been made strong through faith in Jesus' name. Yes, it is faith in Christ that has made this man well and strong. This man is standing here in front of you all. 17 "Brothers, I know you and your leaders did this without knowing what you were doing. 18 In this way, God did what He said He would do through all the early preachers. He said that Christ must suffer many hard things. 19 But you must be sorry for your sins and turn from them. You must turn to God and have your sins taken away. Then many times your soul will receive new strength from the Lord. 20 He will send Jesus back to the world. He is the Christ Who long ago was chosen for you. 21 But for awhile He must stay in heaven until the time when all things are made right. God said these things would happen through His holy early preachers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and all: Acts 3:19, Acts 3:21, Romans 3:21

Samuel: Acts 13:20, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 3:20, Psalms 99:6, Jeremiah 15:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:17 - General Luke 12:56 - that Luke 14:17 - his Luke 16:16 - Law Luke 24:27 - and all Acts 7:52 - which showed Acts 26:6 - the promise Hebrews 11:32 - Samuel 2 Peter 3:2 - ye may

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
Then the woman said to the snake, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening. The man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man. He said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "I will make your pain much worse in giving birth. You will give birth to children in pain. Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18
It will grow thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "See, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and bad. Now then, he might put out his hand to take from the tree of life also, and eat and live forever."
Exodus 25:2
"Tell the people of Israel to take a gift for Me. Receive the gift for Me from every person whose heart makes him willing.
Numbers 22:23
When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword in his hand, the donkey turned off the road and went into the field. But Balaam hit the donkey to turn her on the road again.
Joshua 5:13
When Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing near him with his sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and said, "Are you for us or for those who hate us?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel,.... Who was, as the Jews call him, רבן של נביאים, "the master of the prophets" l; and they say, that Samuel the prophet is הנביא הראשון, "the first prophet" in the chain of the Kabbala m; and therefore is here particularly mentioned, as at the head of the prophets, and next to Moses; there being but very few prophets between him and Moses, when there were many after him; and in his days, the schools of the prophets were set up: now not only Moses spoke of Christ, but all the prophets from the time of Samuel; in the books that bear his name, stands a famous prophecy concerning Christ, 2 Samuel 7:13.

And those that follow after; in order, as David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, c.

and as many as have spoken anything by way of prophecy:

have likewise foretold of these days; of the days of the Messiah, of his person, office, incarnation, obedience, sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension, the pouring down of the Spirit, the times of refreshing, the Gospel dispensation, the conversion of the Jews, the calling of the Gentiles, and the gathering in all the elect of God.

l T Hieros. Chagiga, fol. 77. 1. m Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 9. 1. Vid. Kimchi in Psal. xcix. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the prophets - That is, the prophets in general. It may be said of the prophets generally, or of all of them, that they have foretold these things. This expression is not to be pressed as if we were to look for distinct predictions of the Messiah in each one of the prophets. The use of language does not require so strict an interpretation.

From Samuel - In the previous verse (22) Moses was mentioned as the first in order. The next in order was Samuel. The same mention of Moses and Samuel occurs in Psalms 99:6. The reason why Samuel is mentioned here is probably that he was the first prophet after Moses who recorded a prediction respecting the times of the Messiah. The Jews, in their divisions of the books of the Old Testament, reckoned the book of Joshua as the first of the prophets. But in Joshua and Judges there does not occur any distinct prediction of the Messiah. The prophecy in Samuel, to which Peter probably had reference, is in 2 Samuel 7:16. From the time of Moses to Samuel, also, it is probable that no prophet arose. God was consulted by Urim, and Thummim Exodus 28:30; Numbers 27:21, and consequently no extraordinary messenger was sent to instruct the nation.

As many as have spoken - Whosoever has declared the will of God. This is to be taken in a general sense. The meaning is, that the prophets had concurred in foretelling these days. They not merely concurred in foretelling a happy future period, but they foretold distinctly the very things which had actually occurred respecting Jesus of Nazareth; and the Jews, therefore, should listen to the voice of their own prophets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:24. All the prophets from Samuel — Dr. Lightfoot observes: "We have Moses and Samuel mentioned together in this place, as also Psalms 99:6, because there were few or no prophets between these two, 1 Samuel 3:1, and the apparition of angels having been more frequent; but, after the decease of Phineas, it is a question whether there was any oracle by Urim and Thummim, through the defect of prophecy in the high priests, till the times of Samuel. But then it revived in Abimelec, Abiather, &c." The Jews have a saying, Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 77. גכיאים שמואל דבן של Samuel was the chief of the prophets. Perhaps it was in reference to this that Peter said, All the prophets from Samuel, &c.


 
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