SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:26
A vosotros primeramente, Dios, levantando a su Hijo, Jess, lo envi para que os bendijese, a fin de que cada uno se convierta de su maldad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 3:26
Verse 26. Unto you first, God, having raised up] As you are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, the first offers of salvation belong to you, and God thus makes them to you. The great mission of Jesus Christ is directed first to you, that you may be saved from your sins. God designs to bless you, but it is by turning each of you away from his iniquities. The salvation promised in the covenant is a salvation from SIN, not from the Romans; and no man can have his sin blotted out who does not turn away from it. 1. We may learn from this that neither political nor ecclesiastical privileges can benefit the soul, merely considered in themselves: a man may have Abraham for his father, according to the flesh; and have Satan for his father, according to the spirit. A man may be a member of the visible Church of Christ, without any title to the Church triumphant. In short, if a man be not turned away from his iniquities, even the death of Christ profits him nothing. His name shall be called JESUS, for he shall SAVE his people FROM their SINS.
2. If Christ be the substance and sum of all that the prophets have written, is it not the duty and interest of every Christian, in reading the Scriptures, to search for the testimony they bear to this Christ, and the salvation procured by his death?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. Unto you first, God having raised his Son Jesus , etc.] Which may be understood, either of the incarnation of Christ, and his exhibition in the flesh; which is sometimes expressed by raising him up, and is no other than the mission, or manifestation of him in human nature, as in ( Luke 1:69, Acts 13:23). Or of the resurrection of him from the dead, and the exaltation of him at the right hand of God: sent him to bless you ; in person, according to the former sense; for he was indeed sent only to the people of Israel, and to them he preached; many of whom were blessed with converting grace under his ministry; but according to the latter sense, and which seems most agreeable, he was sent in the ministry of the word, and came by his Spirit, first to the Jews, among whom the Gospel was first preached for a while, and was blessed to the conversion of many thousands among them, both in Judea, and in the nations of the world, where they were dispersed: in turning away everyone of you from his iniquities ; in this the blessing lay, and is rightly in our version ascribed to Christ, and to the power of his grace, in the ministration of the Gospel and not to themselves, as in many other versions; as the Syriac version, if ye convert yourselves, and turn from your evils; making it both their own act, and the condition of their being blessed; and the Arabic version likewise, so that everyone of you departs from his wickedness; but that work is Christs, and this is the blessing of grace he himself bestows, and is a fruit of redemption by his blood, ( Titus 2:14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-26 - Here is a powerful address to warn the Jews of the dreadfu consequences of their unbelief, in the very words of Moses, their favourite prophet, out of pretended zeal for whom they were ready to reject Christianity, and to try to destroy it. Christ came into the world to bring a blessing with him. And he sent his Spirit to be the great blessing. Christ came to bless us, by turning us from ou iniquities, and saving us from our sins. We, by nature cleave to sin the design of Divine grace is to turn us from it, that we may not onl forsake, but hate it. Let none think that they can be happy by continuing in sin, when God declares that the blessing is in being turned from all iniquity. Let none think that they understand of believe the gospel, who only seek deliverance from the punishment of sin, but do not expect happiness in being delivered from sin itself And let none expect to be turned from their sin, except by believin in, and receiving Christ the Son of God, as their wisdom righteousness, sanctification, and redemption __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
υμιν 5213 P-2DP πρωτον 4412 ADV ο 3588 T-NSM θεος 2316 N-NSM αναστησας 450 5660 V-AAP-NSM τον 3588 T-ASM παιδα 3816 N-ASM αυτου 846 P-GSM ιησουν 2424 N-ASM απεστειλεν 649 5656 V-AAI-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM ευλογουντα 2127 5723 V-PAP-ASM υμας 5209 P-2AP εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSM αποστρεφειν 654 5721 V-PAN εκαστον 1538 A-ASM απο 575 PREP των 3588 T-GPF πονηριων 4189 N-GPF υμων 5216 P-2GP
Vincent's NT Word Studies
26. His Son Jesus. The best texts omit Jesus. Render servant for son, and see on ver. 13.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:26 {Unto you first} (humin prwton). The Jews were first in privilege and it was through the Jews that the Messiah was to come for "all the families of the earth." {His servant} (ton paida autou). As in verse #13, the Messiah as God's Servant. {To bless you} (eulogounta humas). Present active participle to express purpose, blessing you (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 991). In turning away (en twi apostrefein). Articular infinitive in the locative case, almost preserved in the English.
