Acts 1:1

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.

-Usherian year of the world, 4033.

-Alexandrian aera of the world, 5531.

-Antiochian year of the world, 5521.

-Constantinopolitan year of the world, 5537.

-Year of the aera of the Seleucidae, 341.

-Year of the Spanish aera, 67.

-Year of the Christian aera, 29.

-Year of the Paschal Cycle, 30.

-Year of the Jewish Cycle, 11.

-Golden Number, 8.

-Solar Cycle, 10.

-Dominical Letter, B.

-Jewish Passover, April 15.

-Epact, 20.

-Year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius Caesar, 18.

-Year of the CCII. Olympiad, 1.

-Year of Rome, 782.

-Consuls, from Jan. 1, to July 1, L. Rubellius Geminus, and C. Rufius Geminus; and, for the remainder of the year, Aulus Plautius and L. Nonius Asprenas.

For an explanation of these aeras, see the Advertisement prefixed to the Comment on the Gospel of St Matthew.

CHAPTER I.

St. Luke's prologue, containing a repetition of Christ's

history from his passion till his ascension, 1-9.

Remarkable circumstances in the ascension, 10, 11.

The return of the disciples to Jerusalem, and their employment

there, 12-14.

Peter's discourse concerning the death of Judas Iscariot, 15-20,

and the necessity of choosing another apostle in his place,

21, 22.

Barnabas and Matthias being set apart by prayer, the apostles

having given their votes, Matthias is chosen to succeed Judas,

23-26.

NOTES ON CHAP. I.

Verse Acts 1:1. The former treatise] The Gospel according to Luke, which is here most evidently intended.

O Theophilus] Luke 1:3.

To do and teach] These two words comprise his miracles and sermons. This introduction seems to intimate that, as he had already in his Gospel given an account of the life and actions of our Lord, so in this second treatise he was about to give an account of the lives and acts of some of the chief apostles, such as Peter and Paul.