Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 1]
verb (here only in the N.T.), to clang, to crack, to crash, like
a falling tree. Aristophanes uses it of crashing bones. \Mesos\
is predicate nominative referring to Judas. {Gushed out}
(\exechuth•\). First aorist passive indicative of \ekche•\, to
pour out.
1:19 {Language} (\dialekt•i\). Not a dialect of the Greek, but a
different language, the Aramaic. So also in 2:6; 21:40.
\Dialektos\ is from \dialegomai\, to converse, to speak between
two (\dia\). {Akeldama} (\Hakeldamach\). This Aramaic word Peter
explains as "the field of blood." Two traditions are preserved:
one in Mt 27:7 which explains that the priests purchased this
potter's field with the money which Judas flung down as the price
of the blood of Jesus. The other in Acts describes it as the
field of blood because Judas poured out his blood there. Hackett
and Knowling argue that both views can be true. "The ill-omened
name could be used with a double emphasis" (Hackett).
1:20 {For it is written} (\gegraptai gar\). Luke here returns to
the address of Peter interrupted by verses 18,19. Perfect
passive indicative, the usual idiom in quoting scripture, stands
written. Ps 69 is often quoted as Messianic in Matthew and
John. {His habitation} (\h• epaulis autou\). Only here in the
N.T., a country house, cottage, cabin. {His office} (\t•n
episkop•n autou\). Our word bishopric (Authorized Version) is
from this word, office of bishop (\episcopos\). Only that is not
the idea here, but over-seership (\epi, skope•\) or office as in
1Pe 2:12. It means to visit and to inspect, to look over. The
ecclesiastical sense comes later (1Ti 3:1).
1:21 {Must} (\dei\). Present necessity corresponding to the old
necessity (\edei\) about Judas (verse 16). This sentence in
verses 21,22 begins with \dei\. {That} (\h•i\). Locative case
of the relative attracted to the case of the antecedent. {Went in
and went out} (\eis•lthen kai ex•lthen\). Constative aorist
active. {With us} (\eph' h•mas\). {Over us}, the margin has it.
But the full phrase would be \eph' h•mas kai aph' h•m•n\. He came
to us and went from us (Knowling).
1:22 {Beginning} (\arxamenos\). Aorist middle participle of
\arch•\, agreeing (nominative) with \ho kurios I•sous\ (the Lord
Jesus). The ministry of Jesus began with the ministry of John.
Strictly speaking \arxamenos\ should be the accusative and agree
with \martura\ (witness) in verse 22, but the construction is a
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