Acts 3:24

From Samuel. Samuel is named here probably because with him the prophets of Israel first appear as a group, particularly in connection with the schools of the prophets. In the 3d century A.D. Judah ha-Nasi, the compiler of the Mishnah, referred to Samuel as “the teacher of the prophets” (see Strack and Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, vol. 2, p. 627), and this may well represent a view current in Peter’s day.

These days. It is not clear whether Peter refers here to the “times of restitution” (v. 21) or to the remarkable times in which he and his hearers were then living. He may, indeed, have coalesced the two in his thinking, believing that the events he was witnessing would finally usher in the closing scenes (cf. ch. 2:17).