Picking it up from verse 36...
"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call." And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation." Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.1
Endnotes:
1. | NKJV, Acts 2:36-41 |
2. | Ref-0014, Acts 2:37 |
3. | Ref-0304, Acts 2:37 |
4. | Ref-1280, John 16:8 |
5. | Ref-0696, John 16:8 |
6. | Ref-1347, John 16:8 |
7. | http://www.mabanachapel.org/beliefs.html, accessed 20131109. |
8. | Ref-0933, 206 |
9. | Ref-1289, 62,70 |
10. | Ref-1302, 131 |
11. | Ref-1348, 220-221 |
12. | Ref-1302, 133 |
13. | Ref-1346, 1233 |
14. | Ref-1206, 367 |
15. | Ref-0055, Vol. 7 No. 20, March 2003, p. 33 |
16. | Ref-1206, 367 |
17. | “Conversion is turning from evil (Acts 8:22; 2Cor. 12:21; Rev. 2:21-22) to God (Acts 20:21; 26:20; Rev. 16:9). In Acts 3:19 and 26:20 metanoeō and eipstrephō are placed side by side; metanoeō describes the turning from evil and epistrephō the turning to God.”16 |
18. | Ref-1349, 42-44 |
19. | “Times without number it has been urged, and as often refuted, that three thousand men could not have been baptized (immersed) during the remainder of that day, and with the supply of water accessible in Jerusalem. It is true that there is no running stream in the vicinity of the city, and there never has been, suitable for the purpose; but from a time long prior to the birth of Jesus the city has been supplied with artificial pools in which the ordinance could be administered even to such a multitude. At the present day, the only one of these which remains entirely suitable for the purpose, and which has been so used in modern times by missionaries, is the pool of Siloam, situated in the valley immediately south of the temple enclosure. . . . The pool now called Upper Gihon . . . is at present the next most suitable place. . . . But the most suitable of all the ancient pools is the one now called Lower Gihon by Europeans, but called the Pool of the Sultan, on account of its size, by the natives. . . . Since a knowledge of these facilities for baptizing in ancient Jerusalem has been spread abroad by the writings of explorers within our own generation, it has become inexcusable in any person of intelligence to raise the objection which we have been considering”18 |
20. | Concerning love demonstrated through obedience: Isa. 50:10; Luke 6:46; John 14:15-24; 15:10,14; Acts 5:32; 1Jn. 3:24; 5:2-3; 2Jn. 1:6. |
21. | http://www.mabanachapel.org/beliefs.html, accessed 20131109. |
Sources:
NKJV | Unless indicated otherwise, all Scripture references are from the New King James Version, copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
Ref-0014 | New English Bible, electronic edition (Dallas, TX: Biblical Studies Press, 1998). [www.bible.org]. |
Ref-0055 | Mal O. Couch, ed., The Conservative Theological Journal (Fort Worth, TX: Tyndale Theological Seminary, n.d.). [www.tyndale.edu]. |
Ref-0304 | The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2003. Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers. |
Ref-0696 | J. Calvin Calvin's Commentaries (Albany, OR: Ages Software, 1998). |
Ref-0933 | Iain Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones - The First Forty Years (Carlisle, PN: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1982, 1998). ISBN:0-85151-353-0c. |
Ref-1206 | Verlyn D. Verbrugge, ed., New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000). ISBN:0-310-25620-8d. |
Ref-1280 | Joseph S. Exell, The Biblical Illustrator (London, England: n.p., 1887). |
Ref-1289 | Jonathan Edwards, On Knowing Christ (Carlisle, PN: Banner of Truth Trust, 1993, 1839). ISBN:0-85151-583-5e. |
Ref-1302 | Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh, Scotland: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1987). ISBN:978-0851514949f. |
Ref-1346 | James Strong, The New Strong's Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001). ISBN:0-7852-4716-5g. |
Ref-1347 | William Burkitt, Expository Notes on the New Testament (n.p.: n.p., 1703). |
Ref-1348 | George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003). ISBN:0-300-09693-3h. |
Ref-1349 | J. W. McGarvey, Acts of Apostles (Cincinnati, OH: The Standard Publishing Foundation, 1863). |