Answer: The people, being cut to the heart about what
they had done to the Son of God, asked Peter and the other
apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" (verse
37).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
From The Acts of the Apostles From Jerusalem to Rome
by Wayne Jackson:
Peter's words plunged deeply into the hearts of his
audience. The verb "pricked"
["cut"-NIV] means to "pierce" and signifies
"to pain the mind sharply." Thayer comments that
the Jews "were smitten in heart with poignant
sorrow"...The fact that these folks were "pricked
in their heart" and asked, "What shall we do?,"
reveals two things. First, they had become convinced of the
truthfulness of the apostolic message; they were believers
at this point, yet they obviously were not saved as yet. The
doctrine of "salvation by faith alone" is not supported
in the Scriptures. Second, they recognized that there was
something they must "do" to remedy their lost
condition. Man is not passive in his salvation.
Acts 16:30: "He [the jailer] then
brought them out and asked, 'Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?'"
