Ye men of Galilee The Galilæan dialect was a marked peculiarity of the apostolic band. It seems also to have been our Lord's manner of speech. For when Peter is accused (Matthew 26:73) of being one of Christ's followers the words of the accusation are "Surely thou art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee."

shall so come This promise of the return of Jesus, on the immediate expectation of which so many of the first Christians fixed their thoughts, explains those words in the abridged account of the Ascension in St Luke's Gospel (Luke 24:52), "They returned to Jerusalem with great joy."

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