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Acts 1:6
When they, therefore, were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
When they, therefore, were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Verse Acts 1:6. _WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER_] It is very likely that this is to be understood of their assembling on one of the mountains of Galilee, and there meeting our Lord. _AT THIS...
WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER - At the Mount of Olives. See Acts 1:9, Acts 1:12. WILT THOU AT THIS TIME ... - The apostles had entertained the common opinions of the Jews about the temporal d...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS Part I The Witness to Jerusalem. The Advent of the Spirit and the Formation of the Church. The Offer to Israel and its Rejection. Chapter s 1-7 CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Intro...
PROGRAMME OF THE MISSION: THE ASCENSION. Acts 1:6. The opening words suggest a religious meeting; the occurrences of Acts 1:9 are in the open air; _cf._ the tryst made in Mark 16:7 =...
So when they had met together they asked him, "Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom of Israel at this time?" But he said to them, "It is not yours to know the times and the seasons which the Fat...
POWER TO GO ON (Acts 1:1-5)...
ASKED OF. were questioning. Greek. _eperotao._ Compare App-134. WILT THOU. Literally if (App-118. a) Thou dost. Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Tense). App-6. AT. in. Greek. _en_. App-104. RESTORE...
_wilt thou … restore_ Literally, DOST _thou restore_(or _art thou restoring_), but the English future gives the sense. _the kingdom to Israel_ The question was asked when all the Apostles were gathere...
Acts 1:1. Link connecting this book with St Luke's Gospel. Detailed account of the Ascension _The Title_. According to the best MSS. this should be simply "Acts of Apostles." The _Cod. Sin._gives only...
ἨΡΏΤΩΝ with אABC. The shorter form was most likely the earlier. The same may be said too of ΒΛΈΠΟΝΤΕΣ in Acts 1:11. 6. ΕἸ. This conjunction, at first used after some verb on which it was dependent, at...
Acts 1:1-14. LINK CONNECTING THIS BOOK WITH ST LUKE’S GOSPEL. DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ASCENSION...
_JESUS PROMISED THE HOLY GHOST ACTS 1:4-8:_ The apostles were to wait in Jerusalem for the fulfillment of the promise of the father. The promise of the Father was that He would send the Holy Ghost upo...
ΜΈΝ ΟΎΝ (G3303; G3767) так что. Любимое выражение автора Деяний; им обычно начинается новая история, которая, однако, связана с изложенным ранее (LC). ΣΥΝΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.)_ "Когда (по...
LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME, &C.— The disciples seem to have expected, that, when the Spirit was in so extraordinary a manner poured out, and the _world,_ according to Christ's prediction (John 16:8....
ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVET ACTS 1:6-11. Acts 1:6 They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? Acts 1:7 And he said unto t...
6-8. We are informed by Matthew that Jesus prefaced the commission by announcing, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me." It was, probably, this announcement that led to the inquiry whi...
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED OF HIM, [ hoi...
1 Acts is a continuation of the account of our Lord's ministry as recorded by Luke, who presents Him as Son of Mankind. As Theophilus is mentioned elsewhere only in Luke's account, it seems that the l...
THE ASCENSION. Belief in the Ascension of Jesus follows necessarily from belief in His resurrection. If Jesus rose from the dead not with a natural, but with a spiritual body (and this is undoubtedly...
THE ASCENSION. ELECTION OF MATTHIAS 1-5. St. Luke's Introduction. He recapitulates the general contents of his Gospel, adding, however, this additional information, (1) that the appearances of the ri...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ ABOUT THIS BOOK THE WRITER Most people agree that Luke wrote Acts. Luke also wrote the third *Gospel. In Acts, he told how the good news about Jesus *C...
LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM? — More literally, _art Thou restoring_... Before the Passion the disciples had thought that “the kingdom of God should immediately appear” (Luke...
οἱ μὲν οὖν : the combination μὲν οὖν is very frequent in Acts in all parts, occurring no less than twenty-seven times; _cf._ Luke 3:18. Like the simple μέν it is sometimes used without δέ in the apodo...
BEGINNING AFRESH Acts 1:1-14 Luke informs Theophilus (the name means “a lover of God”) that his Gospel told the story of what the Lord _began_ to do and teach. Evidently this further book is a _conti...
In the opening verse Luke reveals the nature of his first treatise. It had to do with "all that Jesus began to do and to teach." This is followed by the last glimpse we have of the disciples before Pe...
Questions Concerning the Kingdom Concepts developed in childhood are sometimes difficult to change. Such was certainly the case with the apostles' thinking about the kingdom Jesus would establish. The...
(3) When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time (e) restore again the kingdom to Israel? (3) We must fight before we triumph, and we must not searc...
_Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? Some of them, as St. John Chrysostom observes, had still their thoughts upon a temporal kingdom of the Messias. Christ, to divert them from...
KINGDOM OF ISRAEL 6. When Jacob was converted amid the wonderful vision of the ladder, he called the place Bethel, which means “the family of God,” commemorating the fact of his spiritual birth, as th...
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? (7) And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or t...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
6.He showeth that the apostles were gathered together when as this question was moved, that we may know that it came not of the foolishness of one or two that it was moved, but it was moved by the com...
Let us now examine the Chapter s in their course. Chapter 1 supplies us with the narrative of that which relates to Jesus risen, and the actions of the apostles before the descent of the Holy Ghost. T...
WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER,.... That is, Christ, and his eleven apostles; for not the hundred and twenty disciples hereafter mentioned, nor the five hundred brethren Christ appeared to at...
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? Ver. 6. _Restore again_] They dreamt of a distribation of honours...
_When they, therefore, were come together_ That is, after he had led them out of the town to the mount of Olives, and was come to that part of the mountain which was above Bethany, (see Luke 24:50,) b...
RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM; the temporal kingdom, by delivering the Jews from the power of the Romans....
Verse 1 establishes the fact that Luke (a Gentile) is the writer, "the former treatise" being his Gospel (Luke 1:1). In that case Theophilus is addressed as "most excellent," manifestly a public offic...
THEREFORE, WHEN THEY HAD COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, " LORD, WILL YOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL? " 1. Is this the time? - After all the teaching, they still did not unders...
They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? 'DOST THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?'- Points to Note:...
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...
WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER; either the one hundred and twenty, mentioned ACTS 1:15, or the five hundred, mentioned 1 CORINTHIANS 15:6. That they might more readily obtain an answer, they j...
6-8. We are informed by Matthew that Jesus prefaced the commission by announcing, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me." It was, probably, this announcement that led to the inquiry whi...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]...
Acts 1:6 Therefore G3767 when G3303 together G4905 (G5631) asked G1905 (G5707) Him G846 saying G3004 ...
‘They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, “Lord, do you at this time restore the kingly rule to Israel?” ' ‘Lord.' What a different view they had of Jesus now. He was no more...
JESUS' COMMISSION TO HIS APOSTLES (1:4-11). Here the risen Jesus calls on His believing people to wait for the coming of the promised Holy Spirit Who would be poured out on them like rain on fruitful...
_The Last Interview with the Disciples, 6-8._ Acts 1:6. WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER. This is a different meeting from that related above (Acts 1:4-5). That was in the house where they parto...
THEY THEREFORE (ο μεν ουν). Demonstrative use of ο with μεν ουν without any corresponding δε just as in Acts 1:1 μεν occurs alone. The combination μεν ουν is common in Acts (27 times). Cf. Luke 3:18...
AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL For forty days, the risen Lord had been instructing the apostles "of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God," doubtless, according to His custom (Luke 24:27); (Luke 2...
Acts 1:6 The extent and the nature of the intercourse of the risen Lord with His disciples must ever be of the deepest interest to the Church. He was not in those forty days quite as He had been befor...
Acts 1:1 _(with Luke 24:15)_ Ascension Day I. It is quite necessary to seize firmly and hold fast by this thought, that the acts of Apostles and all subsequent acts of their true successors, are, as...
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 commandmen...
CONTENTS: Resurrection ministry of Christ. The apostolic commission. Promise of the Lord's second coming. Waiting for the coming of the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Spirit, Luke, Theophilus, John...
Acts 1:1. _The former treatise have I made of all that Jesus began to do and teach._ St. Luke, a companion of St. Paul, here continues his history. It comprises a display of providence and grace in th...
LORD, WILL YOU AT THIS TIME? They still held to their former ideas about a "golden age of Israel," with a political Messiah. Their only question was: "Will you give it _now?"_ Not until the Holy Spiri...
_The former treatise have I made._ A TRUE COMMENCEMENT MUST HAVE RESPECT TO WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE In any new beginning of study or work, it is important to have in mind what has been done before in th...
_And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem._ LAST WORDS Before ascending Christ had-- I. A misconception to remove--respecting the date and c...
_Wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?_ BEFORE THE ASCENSION I. The question of the apostles. 1. The great awe produced by the first appearances of the risen Christ has worn o...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:6 The disciples assembled at the Mount of Olives (v. Acts 1:12). They asked Jesus when he would RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL. Perhaps they still expected a military and
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:1 Preparation for Witness. Acts 1:1 opens with the account of the Spirit’s descent at Pentecost. Chapter...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:6. WHEN THEY WERE COME TOGETHER.—(The Sinaitic codex omits _together_.) This was not the meeting referred to in Acts 1:4, but the last interview recorded in Luke 24:36, which...
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...
Shall we turn to the book of Acts, chapter one, as we begin our study of the early church. Luke, the author of the book of Acts, a companion of Paul the apostle, who was author also of the Gospel Acco...
Amos 9:11; Daniel 7:27; Ezekiel 37:24; Genesis 49:10; Hosea 3:4;...
Asked [ε π η ρ ω τ ω ν]. The imperfect, denoting the repetition and urging of the question....
MISSIONS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS Acts 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will set before you the steps which were preparatory to the coming of the Spirit, and the inauguration of the great missionary endeavor....
RESULTS OF THE RESURRECTION Acts 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. If Christ had not been raised. When Jesus Christ lay-dead in the tomb, a darkness as dense as that which shrouded the earth in chaotic tim...
Dost thou at this time — At the time thou now speakest of? not many days hence? restore the kingdom to Israel? — They still seemed to dream of an outward, temporal kingdom, in which the Jews should ha...
Observe here, The disciples' question and our Saviour's answer: 1. The question proposed by the disciples, LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL? That is, Wilt thou repair...