Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 1:8
But ye shall receive power — and shall be witnesses to me — That is, ye shall be empowered to witness my Gospel, both by your preaching and suffering.
But ye shall receive power — and shall be witnesses to me — That is, ye shall be empowered to witness my Gospel, both by your preaching and suffering.
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Verse Acts 1:8. _BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER_] ληψεσθε δυναμιν. Translating different terms of the original by the _same_ English word is a source of misapprehension and error. We must not understand...
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER ... - Literally, as it is translated in the margin, “Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you.” This was said to them to console them. Though they could...
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)...
POWER. Greek _dunamis._ App-172. THE HOLY GHOST. the Holy Spirit (with art.) App-101. Compare Luke 24:49. UPON. App-104. WITNESSES. See note on John 1:7. UNTO ME. Texts read, "of Me", or "My" witne...
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...
_ye shall receive power_ Something different from the profitless speculations to which they had just desired an answer, even "a mouth and wisdom which their adversaries could neither gainsay nor resis...
ΜΟΥ. The _Text. recept_. is the result of a conformity to the more common construction. 8. ΔΎΝΑΜΙΝ. The _Vulgate_ renders ‘virtutem,’ and makes it govern the words in the genitive which immediately fo...
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...
ΛΉΜΨΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать, ΈΠΕΛΘΌΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΕΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1904) нисходить. _Gen. abs._ ΈΣΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ miem быть, ΜΟΥ...
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...
See notes on verse 6...
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the eart...
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...
1:8 power, (c-5) _ Exousia_ ; a right one possesses. 'power' is _ dunamis_ , see Note, Matthew 10:1 . earth. (d-34) Or 'land.' see ch. 13.47 and Note, Matthew 5:5 ....
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...
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...
SAMARIA, etc.] Jesus here revokes the temporary limitation of the mission of the Apostles to the Jews (Matthew 10:5). This passage is one of the many proofs that Jesus intended to found a universal re...
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...
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER. — The use of the same English noun for two different Greek words is misleading, but if “authority” be used in Acts 1:7 then “power” is an adequate rendering here. The consc...
ἔσεσθέ μου μάρτυρες, “my witnesses,” R.V., reading μου instead of μοι, not only witnesses to the facts of their Lord's life, _cf._ Acts 1:22; Acts 10:39, but also _His_ witnesses, His by a direct pers...
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...
THE HOLY GHOST HIMSELF, THE POWER 8. _“But you shall receive power of the Holy Ghost having come on you.”_ The English version gives this very incorrectly, “you shall receive power after that the Holy...
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...
8._You shall receive power. _Our Savior Christ doth here call them back as well unto the promise of God as also unto his commandment, which was the readiest way to bridle their curiosity. Curiosity do...
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...
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER,.... From on high, with which they were to be endured, Luke 24:49 meaning the power of the Holy Ghost, strength from him to preach the Gospel, and work miracles in confirmat...
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth...
_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...
YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER; he turns away their thoughts from these vain inquiries to the spiritual office and work for which they are about to be furnished from on high....
The final promise of the Holy Spirit:...
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU; AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA, AND IN SAMARIA, AND UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH....
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...
BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH. " 1. You will receive pow...
POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU: Or, the power of the holy Ghost coming upon you...
But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 'BUT'-'It w...
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...
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU; not till then, not of their own strength, but of God's grace, as appeared by Peter's denying and the others leaving of our Savio...
Origen de Principiis Book I And on one occasion, scarcely even the apostles themselves are deemed worthy to hear the words, "Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you."[85] Origen...
Acts 1:8 But G235 receive G2983 (G5695) power G1411 Holy G40 Spirit G4151 come G1904 (G5631) upon...
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...
“But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come on you: and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.” What they ar...
Acts 1:8. BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON you. The Lord again referred to that new power which should descend upon them which He had before promised them, and told t...
POWER (δυναμιν). Not the "power" about which they were concerned (political organization and equipments for empire on the order of Rome). Their very question was ample proof of their need of this n...
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...
BUT YOU WILL BE FILLED WITH POWER. Not the political power they dreamed of having, but spiritual power! AND YOU WILL BE WITNESSES FOR ME. A "witness" is one who _gives evidence or testimony, based upo...
_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...
_But ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you._ THE GIFT OF POWER At first sight this promise seems to be Christ’s response to a universal craving. There is nothing which so awaken...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:1 Preparation for Witness. Acts 1:1 opens with the account of the Spirit’s descent at Pentecost. Chapter...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:8 This verse states the key theme of Acts 1:1. It begins with the Spirit’s empowering of the witness to Jesus. Then it provides a rough outline of the book: JERUSALEM (chs.
_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...
Acts 2:1; Acts 6:8; Acts 8:19; Acts 8:5; Acts 1:22;...
Unto me [μ ο ι]. The best texts read mou, of me; or, as Rev., my witnesses. Samaria. Formerly they had been commanded not to enter the cities of the Samaritans (Matthew 10:5)....
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...
Observe here, How Christ, instead of gratifying his disciples curiosity, acquaints them with their own duty; he tells them, that although they had received his Spirit before, in some measure, yet very...