They went up into the upper room — The upper rooms, so frequently mentioned in Scripture, were chambers in the highest part of the house, set apart by the Jews for private prayer. These, on account of their being so retired and convenient, the apostles now used for all the offices of religion. Matthew 10:2; Mark 3:14; Luke 6:13.
ACTS 1:13 The omission in Codex Bezae of kai, both before the first occurrence of VIa,kwboj and before Si,mwn is to be accounted for (as Ropes points out) by the arrangement of the apostles’ names in...
Verse Acts 1:13. _THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM_] This was either a room in the _temple_, or in the house of one of the disciples, where this holy company was accustomed to meet. In Luke 24:53, it...
WERE COME IN - To Jerusalem. THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM - The word ὑπερῷον huperoōn, here translated “upper room,” occurs only four times in the New Testament: Acts 9:37, “She (Dorcas) was si...
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...
THE COMMUNITY AT JERUSALEM. The scene of the Ascension was not mentioned before; we hear of it now. Luke 24:50 puts it at Bethany which is (John 11:18) fifteen stades (about 1¾ miles) from Jerusalem;...
Then they made their way back to Jerusalem from the hill which is called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, about half a mile away. When they came in. they went up to the upper room where t...
POWER TO GO ON (Acts 1:1-5)...
WERE COME. entered. AN. the. UPPER ROOM. Greek. _huperoon_: here; Acts 9:37; Acts 9:39; Acts 20:8. Not the same word as in Mark 14:15.
_And when they were come in_ i.e. into the city, from the open country where the Ascension had taken place. _they went up into an_[THE] _upper room_ Probably the upper room which has been mentioned be...
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...
ΕἸΣΗ͂ΛΘΟΝ, _they were come in_, i.e. entered into Jerusalem, coming from the open country where the Ascension had taken place. ΕἸΣ ΤῸ ὙΠΕΡΩ͂ΙΟΝ, _into the upper room_. The occurrence of the article is...
Acts 1:1-14. LINK CONNECTING THIS BOOK WITH ST LUKE’S GOSPEL. DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ASCENSION...
_JESUS HAD SAID, "WAIT IN JERUSALEM” ACTS 1:13-26:_ Jesus had commanded the apostles to wait in Jerusalem. While they waited the disciples prayed, praised God and appointed an apostle. Matthias was se...
ΕΊΣΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить, ΎΠΕΡΏΟΝ (G5253) комната наверху, верхний этаж или комната на плоской крыше (Barrett; SB, 594). По традиции, место для работы рабби и место для...
THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM,— This might be rendered _into the upper room._ There was in Jerusalem an upper room in which the apostles had been used to assemble with their Lord, where they had eat...
IN THE UPPER ROOM ACTS 1:12-26 Acts 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is nigh unto Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey off. Acts 1:13 And when they were come...
13. "_And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where were abiding Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alpheus, and Simo...
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simo...
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...
1:13 chamber, (f-15) As ch. 9.37,39; 20.8....
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...
waiting Church. 12. Olivet] lit. 'the olive-orchard'; called usually The Mount of Olives. This, the scene of Christ's agony and betrayal, is now made the scene of His triumph. A SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY]...
AN UPPER ROOM] RV 'the upper chamber,' probably that in which the Last Supper had been eaten; not, as some have argued from Luke 24:53, a chamber in the Temple. It may have been in the house of Mary t...
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...
THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM, WHERE ABODE... — Better, _into the upper room, where they were abiding._ The Greek noun has the article. The room may have been the same as that in which the Paschal S...
τὸ ὑπερῷον : “the upper chamber,” R.V., as of some well-known place, but there is no positive evidence to identify it with the room of the Last Supper, although here and in Mark 14:15, as also in Luke...
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...
Praying in Jerusalem In full accord with the Lord's instructions, those who had seen Jesus ascend went into the city of Jerusalem and assembled in an upper room. In his previous writing to Theophilus,...
(5) And when they were (i) come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James [the son] of Alphaeus,...
Into an upper room, to be more retired in prayer. There they were persevering with one mind in prayer. These few words denote to us three dispositions to receive the Holy Ghost. 1. Prayer. 2. Persever...
THE UPPER CHAMBER 12, 13. The walled city of Jerusalem is a quadrangle about twice as long from east to west as wide from north to south. The population is now estimated at fifty thousand, the city wi...
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey. (13) And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Pete...
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...
13._Where they abode _Some translate it, _where they did abide; _as though they did use to dwell there. But I am of that opinion, that they did then first of all use that hired room to dwell together...
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...
Ver. 13 AND WHEN THEY WERE COME IN,.... "Into it", as the Arabic version reads; that is, into the city of Jerusalem, and into some house in that city; but what house it was is needless to inquire, sin...
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James _the son_ of Alphaeus, and Sim...
_When they were come, they went up into an upper room_ Where they usually held their meetings. The upper rooms, so frequently mentioned in Scripture, were chambers in the highest part of the houses, s...
THE ELECTION OF MATTHIAS. The return to Jerusalem:...
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME IN, THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM, WHERE ABODE BOTH PETER, AND JAMES, AND JOHN, AND ANDREW, PHILIP, AND THOMAS, BARTHOLOMEW, AND MATTHEW, JAMES, THE SON OF ALPHAEUS, AND SIMO...
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...
AND WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED, THEY WENT UP INTO THE UPPER ROOM WHERE THEY WERE STAYING: PETER, JAMES, JOHN, AND ANDREW; PHILIP AND THOMAS; BARTHOLOMEW AND MATTHEW; JAMES _THE SON_ OF ALPHAEUS AND SIMON T...
And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeu...
12-14 God can find hiding-places for his people. They made supplication. All God's people are praying people. It was now a time of trouble and danger with the disciples of Christ; but if any is affli...
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME IN, to the city, and to the house, THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM; the same probably where they had kept the passover, and partook of the Lord's supper; howsoever, for its lar...
13. "_ And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where were abiding Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alpheus, and Sim...
Acts 1:13 And G2532 when G3753 entered G1525 (G5627) up G305 (G5627) into G1519 room G5253 where...
‘And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphae...
PREPARATION FOR PENTECOST (1:12-26). In obedience to His command they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives where all this had happened, and entered the upper chamber where they were staying...
Acts 1:13. INTO AN UPPER ROOM. Some have supposed this was an apartment in the temple, arguing from the words of the last verse of St. Luke's Gospel, ‘And were continually in the temple praising and b...
INTO THE UPPER CHAMBER (εις το υπερωιον). The upstairs or upper room (υπερ is upper or over, the adjective υπερωιος), the room upstairs where the women staid in Homer, then a room up under the flat...
ZELOTES The Zealot....
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...
And went up to THE ROOM. A room on the second floor. They both lived there, and used it for a meeting place. All the apostles are named except Judas Iscariot (see notes _on_ Matthew 10:1-4)....
_Then returned they unto Jerusalem._ THE RETURN TO JERUSALEM The distance was a “Sabbath-day’s journey”; not that Moses had limited a journey on the Sabbath; but the Rabbins derived the rule from th...
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 1:12. A SABBATH DAY’S JOURNEY—according to Josephus six (_Ant._, XX. viii. 6) or five (_Wars_, V. ii. 3) furlongs—marked the distance of the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem, not...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:7; 1 John 1:1; 2 John 1:1; 3 John 1:1; Acts 10:9;...
An upper room [τ ο υ π ε ρ ω ο ν]. With the article, denoting some well - known place of resort. It was the name given to the room directly under the flat roof. Such rooms were often set apart as hall...