ACTS 1:4 sunalizo,menoj The textual problems involving sunalizo,menoj and its variants are less perplexing than the lexical considerations concerning the meaning of the word. All known uncial manuscr...
Verse Acts 1:4. _AND, BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER_] Instead of συναλιζομενος, _being assembled together_, several good MSS. and versions read συναυλιζομενος, _living_ or _eating together_, which refers...
AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER - Margin, “or, eating together.” This sense is given to this place in the Latin Vulgate, the Ethiopic, and the Syriac versions. But the Greek word has not properly this 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...
INTRODUCTION. The writer refers to his former treatise, intimating rather than stating that he is beginning a second. The Ascension is his present starting-point, but instead of simply referring to th...
POWER TO GO ON (Acts 1:1-5)...
My Dear Theophilus, I have already given you an account of all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach, right up to the day when he was taken up to heaven, after he had, through the Holy Spirit...
BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH. Greek. _sunalizomai._ Only here. COMMANDED. Greek. _parangello._ First occurance Matthew 10:5. Compare App-121.:6. Not the same word as in Acts 1:2. DEPART. separate th...
_not depart from Jerusalem_ This injunction is only mentioned by St Luke (Luke 24:49). The importance of their keeping together until the Holy Ghost was given is clear. It would thus be made more mani...
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...
ΣΥΝΑΛΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΣ. This word is not found elsewhere in N.T., and in only one doubtful instance (Psalms 140:5) in the LXX., but is frequent in Herodotus, and several times found in Xenophon. Connected with...
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...
ΣΥΝΑΛΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΣΥΝΑΛΊΖΩ (G4871) _букв._ совместно питаться или, возможно, жить вместе с кем-л. (Bruce — ЕТ). О проблемах этого текста _см._ Barrett; ТС, 278-79. Π...
THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DEPART, &C.— This seems a plain intimation that, after our Lord had met his disciples in Galilee, he appointed the apostles to meet him in Jerusalem, or perhaps accompanied them t...
INTRODUCTION ACTS 1:1-5. Acts 1:1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts 1:2 until the day in which he was received up, after that h...
4, 5. To account for the delay of the apostles in Jerusalem after receiving their commission, and to prepare the reader for the scenes of the coming Pentecost, the historian next relates a part of the...
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. AND BEING ASSEMBLE...
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. 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...
AND, BEING ASSEMBLED] rather', 'and while sitting at meat with them': see RM and cp. Mark 16:14. The fact of the risen Lord's eating is attested also by Luke 24:42, where Jesus eats 'before' the disci...
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...
AND, BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM. — The MSS. present two forms of the participle: one with the meaning given in the English version, the other, but inferior reading, with the sense of “dwelling...
συναλίζομενος : a strong array of modern commentators renders “eating with them,” following the Vulgate _convescens illis_ (so both A. and R.V. in margin, and Wycl. and Rhem.). It is thus rendered by...
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...
The Promise of the Holy Spirit During the days following the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his apostles on several different occasions. On the one mentioned in Acts 1:4, the Lord may have eaten with...
And, being (c) assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he], ye have heard of me. (c) They were...
And eating with them. [1] This is a literal translation from the vulgar Latin. But the Protestant translation from some Greek copies, would have it, And being assembled together, he commanded them, &c...
BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 4, 5. One of the puzzles of all Christendom, a problem which none can solve, is why the Christian Church in all ages has not strictly adhered to the positive and unequivoc...
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: (4) And, being assembled 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...
4._Gathering them together, he commanded, etc _They had before done the duty of Apostles; but that lasted but a while; and, secondly, so far forth that they might with their preaching awake the Jews t...
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...
AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM,.... At their last meeting at Bethany, or Mount Olivet, which was by appointment: some render the words, as the Vulgate Latin, "and eating with them"; which was...
And, being assembled together with _them_, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, _saith he_, ye have heard of me. Ver. 4. _Wait for...
_Being assembled together with them_ Namely, at Jerusalem, to which place they had gone to prepare themselves for the feast of pentecost, or rather, in obedience to Christ's command, who, after he had...
THE PROMISE; the promise of the Holy Spirit. HEARD OF ME; John 14:16; John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7-13....
THE ASCENSION OF JESUS. The last commission of Jesus:...
AND, BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, COMMANDED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DEPART FROM JERUSALEM, BUT WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, WHICH, SAITH HE, YE HAVE HEARD OF ME....
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 BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH _THEM,_ HE COMMANDED THEM NOT TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM, BUT TO WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, " WHICH, " _ HE SAID,_ " YOU HAVE HEARD FROM ME; 1. Not to depart...
BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM: Or, eating together with them...
and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me.: 'NOT TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM'-The...
1-5 Our Lord told the disciples the work they were to do. The apostles met together at Jerusalem; Christ having ordered them not to depart thence, but to wait for the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. T...
AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM; by his order, or conversing frequently with them, as those that table together. COMMANDED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DEPART FROM JERUSALEM: otherwise the apostle...
4, 5. To account for the delay of the apostles in Jerusalem after receiving their commission, and to prepare the reader for the scenes of the coming Pentecost, the historian next relates a part of the...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion Outpoured;[8] Five Books in Reply to Marcion A pledge;[108] A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer , ye have heard from me; for John truly baptized with wa...
Acts 1:4 And G2532 together G4871 (G5740) with G846 commanded G3853 (G5656) them G846 not G3361 depart...
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...
‘And, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “which,” said he, “you heard from me”.' The importance of the Holy Sp...
Acts 1:4. AND, BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM. The translation given in the margin of the Authorised Version, ‘eating together with them,' seems the more accurate one. Modern critics are much divi...
BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM (συναλιζομενος). Present passive participle from συναλιζω, an old verb in Herodotus, Xenophon, etc., from sun, with, and αλιζω, from αλης, crowded. The margin of b...
BEING ASSEMBLED Or, eating with them. YE HAVE HEARD Or, heard from me....
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...
DO NOT LEAVE JERUSALEM. It was "poetic justice" that the church of Christ would begin right in the same city where the enemies of Christ lived. A false religion would have begun hundreds of years late...
_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...
_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...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:3. BEING SEEN OF THEM, or showing Himself to them, not in a subjective vision, but objectively and really, during (διά with gen. as in Acts 5:19; Acts 16:9) FORTY DAYS—_i.e._...
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 10:41; Acts 2:33; John 14:16; John 14:26; John 15:26;...
Being assembled together [σ υ ν α λ ι ζ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. From sun, together, and aJlhv thronged or crowded. Both the A. V. and Rev. give eating together in margin, following the derivation from sun, toge...
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...
Wait for the promise of the Father, which ye have heard from me — When he was with them a little before, as it is recorded, Luke 24:49....
Note here, 1. How frequently Christ renewed his promise to his disciples, of sending down the Holy Ghost to confer upon them the gifts of tongues and miracles, in order to the fitting and furnishing o...