Acts 1:11

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. WHICH ALSO SAID, YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? - q.d., 'as if He whom ye love were now lost to you forever.' THIS SAME JESUS, [ houtos (G3778) ho (G3588) Ieesous (G2424)] - 'this very Jesus,' who, as the babe of Bethlehem, received at His circumcision the name of "Jesus," who by His friends from that time forward was so known, and even by His enemies was called "Jesus of Nazareth" - this very Jesus, Which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come i...

11._Ye men of Galilee, etc. _I am not of their opinion who think that this name was given the apostles after an opprobrious sort, as if the angels meant to reprehend the slowness and dullness of the apostles. In my opinion, it was rather to make them more attentive, in that men, whom they did never see before, did name them as though they had perfectly known them. But they seem to reprehend without cause, for looking up into heaven. For where should they rather seek for Christ than in heaven? Doth not the Scriptures also oftentimes exhort us thereunto? I answer, that they were not reprehended because they looked up towards heaven; but because they coveted to see Christ, when as the cloud which was put between them and him did keep them from seeing him with their bodily senses: Secondly, because they hoped that he would return again straightway, that they might enjoy the sight of him agai...

6-11 They were earnest in asking about that which their Master never had directed or encouraged them to seek. Our Lord knew that his ascension and the teaching of the Holy Spirit would soon end these expectations, and therefore only gave them a rebuke; but it is a caution to his church in all ages, to take heed of a desire of forbidden knowledge. He had given his disciples instructions for the discharge of their duty, both before his death and since his resurrection, and this knowledge is enough for a Christian. It is enough that He has engaged to give believers strength equal to their trials and services; that under the influence of the Holy Spirit they may, in one way or other, be witnesses for Christ on earth, while in heaven he manages their concerns with perfect wisdom, truth, and love. When we stand gazing and trifling, the thoughts of our Master's second coming should quicken and...

Verse Acts 1:11. _GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN_] Not to the top of a mountain, to which an unbridled fancy, influenced by infidelity, would intimate he had ascended, and not to heaven. _THIS SAME JESUS_] Clothed in human nature. _shall so come in like_ _manner_-with the same body, _descending_ from heaven by his sovereign and all-controlling power, _as ye have seen him go into heaven_. Thus shall he come again to judge the quick and the dead. It was a very ancient opinion among Christians, that when Christ should come again to judge the world he would make his appearance on Mount _Olivet_. Some think that his coming again to destroy the Jewish nation is what the angels refer to. See a connected account of the different appearances of Christ at the end of this chapter....

YE MEN OF GALILEE - Galilee was the place of their former residence, and they were commonly known by the name of Galileans. WHY STAND YE ... - There is doubtless a slight degree of censure implied in this, as well as a design to call their attention away from a vain attempt to see the departed Saviour. The impropriety may have been: * In the feeling of disappointment, as if he would not restore the kingdom to Israel. * Possibly they were expecting that he would again soon appear, though he had often foretold them that he would ascend to heaven. (3)There might have been an impropriety in their earnest desire for the mere bodily presence of the Lord Jesus, when it was more important that he should be in heaven. We may see here also that it is our duty not to stand in idleness, and to gaze even toward heav

EXPOSITION ACTS 1:1 _I made_ for _have I made, _A.V.; _concerning _for _of, _A.V.; _to teach _for _teach, _A.V. THE FORMER TREATISE; literally, _the first _history, narrative, or discourse. The form of the Greek, τὸν μὲν τρῶτον, shows that the writer had in his mind at the time to contrast the _second history_, which he was just beginning, and that naturally τὸν δὲ δεύτερον or τοῦτον δὲ τὸν λόγον, ought both grammatically and logically, to have followed. But the mention of "the apostles whom he had chosen" drew him, as it were, into the stem of his history before he was able to describe it. O THEOPHILUS. The omission of the title "most excellent," given to Theophilus in the Gospel (Luke 1:3

WHICH ALSO SAID, YE MEN OF GALILEE,.... And which was said by them, not to reproach them with their country, but partly to let them know that they knew them, who they were, and from whence they came; and partly to observe the rich and distinguishing grace of God in choosing such mean and contemptible persons to be the apostles of Christ, and eyewitnesses of his majesty: WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? reproving them for their curiosity in looking after Christ with their bodily eyes, who was no more in common to be seen this way, but with an eye of faith; and for their desire after his corporeal presence, which they were not to look for; and as if they expected he would return again immediately, whereas his return will not be till the end of the world: and besides, they were not to remain on that spot, or stand gazing there; they were to go to Jerusalem, and abide there, as Christ ha...

Acts 1:1. _The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God:_ The resurrection of Christ, as we have often said, is the best attested of all historical facts. There is not half as much reason to be sure that Napoleon Bonaparte was ever taken to St. Helena as to believe that Jesus Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father. If the resurrection of Christ is not credible, there remains nothing credible in history. I go further than that, and say that the news of yesterday, which you read in this morning's paper, you had no...

COME The two Advents -- Summary: (1) The Old Testament foreview of the coming Messiah is in two aspects -- that of rejection and suffering (as, for example, in Isaiah 53), and that of earthly glory and power (as, for example, in Isaiah 11; Jeremiah 23, and Ezekiel 37). Often these two aspects blend in one passage (for example Psalm 2). The prophets themselves were perplexed by this seeming contradiction (1 Peter 1:10); (1 Peter 1:11). It was solved by partial fulfilment. In due time the Messiah, born of a virgin according to Isaiah, appeared among men and began His ministry by announcing the predicted kingdom as "at hand." (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:17). _ The rejection of Ki

ACTS 1:11 @evm#ble,pontej The external evidence is rather evenly divided between ble,pontej (a* B Egr 33 81 180 218 440 522 614 630 642 945 1245 1642 1704 1739 1831 1875 1884 1891 2298 2495 _al_) and evmble,pontej (î56 ac A C (D evnble,pontej) Y and most minuscules). It is difficult to decide whether copyists heightened the account by introducing the compound form (which seems to imply a degree of intensity not suggested by the simple form), or whether the initial syllable was accidentally dropped in copying. In order to represent the even balance of textual evidence and of transcriptional pro...