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Time after Pentecost · The Holy Trinity (First Sunday after Pentecost) · Year B

Acts 2:14a, 22-36

Peter Proclaims the Crucified and Risen Lord

May 23, 2027

Pentecost (The Descent of the Holy Spirit), Titian
Pentecost (The Descent of the Holy Spirit), Titian, 1546/1555Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
Painted for the Venetian church of Santo Spirito and moved to the Salute. The flames fall through a broken ceiling into a crowded, agitated room.It is the day itself, which these readings either narrate or explain.TitianThe dominant painter of sixteenth-century Venice (c. 1488-1576), who worked into his eighties and whose late manner, applied with fingers as much as brushes, startled even his admirers.Santa Maria della Salute, VeniceA domed church at the mouth of the Grand Canal, built in thanks for the end of the plague of 1630 and still visited in procession each November.Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelJohn 3:1-17Jn 3:1-17
EpistleActs 2:14a, 22-36
Old TestamentIsa. 6:1-8Is 6:1-8
PsalterPs. 29Ps 29

Overview & Insights

"Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." (Acts 2:36)

Standing with the eleven on Pentecost, Peter proclaims Jesus of Nazareth as the one attested by God, crucified according to God's plan, and raised from the dead. He shows from the psalms that God would not abandon his Holy One to decay, and calls his hearers to know that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ.

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Commentary

Acts 2 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse by verse study of Peter's Pentecost sermon.

Acts 2:22 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentators gathered on the proclamation of the risen Lord.

Acts 2 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study notes and cross references on the chapter.

Barnes' Notes: Acts 2 StudyLight

A historic verse by verse commentary on the passage.

Background & Word Study

Book of Acts Overview (Part 1) BibleProject

Animated overview of the first half of Acts.

Acts 2:22 Greek Interlinear BibleHub

Greek word by word of Peter's testimony to the resurrection.

The Church Fathers

Acts 2 - Catena Catena

Patristic comment on Peter's sermon from the Church Fathers.

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