Election of an Apostle into the place of Judas Iscariot

15. And in those days i.e. the days intervening between the Ascension and Pentecost.

Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples The best MSS. read brethren for disciples. Here we have a formal assembling of all those who were avowed followers of Jesus in Jerusalem, and the rising of Peter to address them bespeaks the importance which he attached to the duty they were about to perform in electing a successor to Judas.

the number, &c. Render, and there was a multitude of persons (Gr. names) gathered together, about a hundred and twenty. For this use of names = personscp. Revelation 3:4, "Thou hast a few nameseven in Sardis which have not defiled their garments."

The hundred and twenty here collected is in no way inconsistent with St Paul's statement (1 Corinthians 15:6) that Christ shewed Himself on one occasion, before His Ascension, to more than five hundred brethren at once. Those were gathered from all parts of the land, and we have now mention made only of such as had continued in the Holy City.

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