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Verse Acts 1:6. _WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER_] It is very
likely that this is to be understood of their assembling on one of the
mountains of Galilee, and there meeting our Lord.
_AT THIS...
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WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER - At the Mount of Olives. See
Acts 1:9, Acts 1:12.
WILT THOU AT THIS TIME ... - The apostles had entertained the common
opinions of the Jews about the temporal d...
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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...
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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 =...
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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...
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POWER TO GO ON (Acts 1:1-5)...
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ASKED OF. were questioning. Greek. _eperotao._ Compare App-134.
WILT THOU. Literally if (App-118. a) Thou dost. Figure of speech
_Heterosis_ (of Tense). App-6.
AT. in. Greek. _en_. App-104.
RESTORE...
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_wilt thou … restore_ Literally, DOST _thou restore_(or _art thou
restoring_), but the English future gives the sense.
_the kingdom to Israel_ The question was asked when all the Apostles
were gathere...
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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...
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ἨΡΏΤΩΝ with אABC. The shorter form was most likely the
earlier. The same may be said too of ΒΛΈΠΟΝΤΕΣ in Acts 1:11.
6. ΕἸ. This conjunction, at first used after some verb on which it
was dependent, at...
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Acts 1:1-14. LINK CONNECTING THIS BOOK WITH ST LUKE’S GOSPEL.
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ASCENSION...
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_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...
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ΜΈΝ ΟΎΝ (G3303; G3767) так что. Любимое
выражение автора Деяний; им обычно
начинается новая история, которая,
однако, связана с изложенным ранее (LC).
ΣΥΝΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.)_ "Когда
(по...
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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....
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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...
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6-8. We are informed by Matthew that Jesus prefaced the commission by
announcing, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me." It
was, probably, this announcement that led to the inquiry whi...
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When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying,
Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED OF HIM, [ hoi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM? — More
literally, _art Thou restoring_... Before the Passion the disciples
had thought that “the kingdom of God should immediately appear”
(Luke...
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οἱ μὲν οὖν : the combination μὲν οὖν is very
frequent in Acts in all parts, occurring no less than twenty-seven
times; _cf._ Luke 3:18. Like the simple μέν it is sometimes used
without δέ in the apodo...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(3) When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying,
Lord, wilt thou at this time (e) restore again the kingdom to Israel?
(3) We must fight before we triumph, and we must not searc...
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_Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? Some of
them, as St. John Chrysostom observes, had still their thoughts upon a
temporal kingdom of the Messias. Christ, to divert them from...
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KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
6. When Jacob was converted amid the wonderful vision of the ladder,
he called the place Bethel, which means “the family of God,”
commemorating the fact of his spiritual birth, as th...
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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...
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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...
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6.He showeth that the apostles were gathered together when as this
question was moved, that we may know that it came not of the
foolishness of one or two that it was moved, but it was moved by the
com...
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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...
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WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER,.... That is, Christ, and his
eleven apostles; for not the hundred and twenty disciples hereafter
mentioned, nor the five hundred brethren Christ appeared to at...
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When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying,
Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Ver. 6. _Restore again_] They dreamt of a distribation of honours...
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_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...
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RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM; the temporal kingdom, by delivering the
Jews from the power of the Romans....
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The final promise of the Holy Spirit:...
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WHEN THEY, THEREFORE, WERE COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED OF HIM, SAYING,
LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?...
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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...
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They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord,
dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
'DOST THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?'-
Points to Note:...
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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...
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WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER; either the one hundred and
twenty, mentioned ACTS 1:15, or the five hundred, mentioned 1
CORINTHIANS 15:6. That they might more readily obtain an answer, they
j...
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6-8. We are informed by Matthew that Jesus prefaced the commission by
announcing, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me." It
was, probably, this announcement that led to the inquiry whi...
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Five Books in Reply to Marcion
Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]...
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Acts 1:6 Therefore G3767 when G3303 together G4905 (G5631) asked G1905
(G5707) Him G846 saying G3004 ...
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‘They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying,
“Lord, do you at this time restore the kingly rule to Israel?” '
‘Lord.' What a different view they had of Jesus now. He was no more...
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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...
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_The Last Interview with the Disciples, 6-8._
Acts 1:6. WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER. This is a different
meeting from that related above (Acts 1:4-5). That was in the house
where they parto...
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THEY THEREFORE
(ο μεν ουν). Demonstrative use of ο with μεν ουν without
any corresponding δε just as in Acts 1:1 μεν occurs alone. The
combination μεν ουν is common in Acts (27 times). Cf. Luke 3:18...
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AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL
For forty days, the risen Lord had been instructing the apostles "of
the things pertaining to the kingdom of God," doubtless, according to
His custom (Luke 24:27); (Luke 2...
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Acts 1:6
The extent and the nature of the intercourse of the risen Lord with
His disciples must ever be of the deepest interest to the Church. He
was not in those forty days quite as He had been befor...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LORD, WILL YOU AT THIS TIME? They still held to their former ideas
about a "golden age of Israel," with a political Messiah. Their only
question was: "Will you give it _now?"_ Not until the Holy Spiri...
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_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...
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_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...
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_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...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:6 The disciples assembled at the Mount of Olives
(v. Acts 1:12). They asked Jesus when he would RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO
ISRAEL. Perhaps they still expected a military and
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 1:1 Preparation for Witness. Acts 1:1 opens with
the account of the Spirit’s descent at Pentecost. Chapter...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 9:11; Daniel 7:27; Ezekiel 37:24; Genesis 49:10; Hosea 3:4;...
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Asked [ε π η ρ ω τ ω ν]. The imperfect, denoting the
repetition and urging of the question....
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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....
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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...
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Dost thou at this time — At the time thou now speakest of? not many
days hence? restore the kingdom to Israel? — They still seemed to
dream of an outward, temporal kingdom, in which the Jews should ha...
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Observe here, The disciples' question and our Saviour's answer:
1. The question proposed by the disciples, LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS
TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?
That is, Wilt thou repair...