Luke 24:49

And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. AND, BEHOLD, I SEND, [ apostelloo (G649)] - or, 'I am sending,' in the present tense, to intimate its nearness. THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER - that is, what my Father hath promised; or the Holy Spirit, of which Christ is the authoritative Dispenser (John 14:7; Revelation 3:1; Revelation 5:6). B...

49._And, lo, I send. _That the apostles may not be terrified by their weakness, he invites them to expect new and extraordinary grace; as if he had said, though you feel yourselves to be unfit for such a charge, there is no reason why you should despond, because I will send you from heaven that power which I know that you do not possess. The more fully to confirm them in this confidence, he mentions that _the Father had promised to them the Holy Spirit; _for, in order that they might prepare themselves with greater alacrity for the work, God had already encouraged them by his _promise, _as a remedy for their distrust. Christ now puts himself in the place of the Father, and undertakes to perform the promise; in which he again claims for himself divine power. To invest feeble men with heavenly power, is a part of that _glory _which God swears that _he will not give to another: _and, theref...

36-49 Jesus appeared in a miraculous manner, assuring the disciples of his peace, though they had so lately forsaken him, and promising spiritual peace with every blessing. Many troublesome thoughts which disquiet our minds, rise from mistakes concerning Christ. All the troublesome thoughts which rise in our hearts at any time, are known to the Lord Jesus, and are displeasing to him. He spake with them on their unreasonable unbelief. Nothing had passed but what was foretold by the prophets, and necessary for the salvation of sinners. And now all men should be taught the nature and necessity of repentance, in order to the forgiveness of their sins. And these blessings were to be sought for, by faith in the name of Jesus. Christ by his Spirit works on the minds of men. Even good men need to have their understandings opened. But that we may have right thoughts of Christ, there needs no more...

Verse 49. _THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER_] That is, the _Holy Ghost_, promised, John 15:26. See Acts 1:4; Acts 2:33. _UNTIL YE BE ENDUED WITH POWER_] The energy of the Holy Ghost was to be communicated to them for _three_ particular purposes. 1. That he might be in them, a _sanctifying comforter_, fortifying their souls and bringing to their remembrance whatever Jesus had before spoken to them. 2. That their _preaching_ might be accompanied by his demonstration and power to the hearts of their hearers, so that they might believe and be saved. 3. That they might be able to _work miracles_ to confirm their pretensions to a Divine mission, and to esta

THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER - The promise which the Father had made to them “through” the Saviour. See Matthew 10:19; John 14:16, John 14:26. The promise was, that they should be aided by the power of the Holy Spirit. He also doubtless referred to the promise of God, made in the days of Joel, respecting the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. See Joel 2:28, compared with Acts 2:16. ENDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH - The power which would be given them by the descent of the Holy Spirit - the power of sp

EXPOSITION LUKE 24:1 THE RESURRECTION. All the four evangelists give an account of the Resurrection. None of the four, however, attempt to give a _history _of_ _it simply from a human point of sight. Each Gospel probably reproduces the special points dwelt on in certain great centres of Christian teaching, in what we should now term different schools of thought. (Attempts have been made by theological scholars to _classify _these as Jewish, Gentile, Greek, Roman; but only with indifferent success). The teaching which St. Matthew's Gospel represents, evidently in the Resurrection preaching dwelt with peculiar insistence on the great Galilaean appearance of the Risen. St. Luke confines himself exclusively to the appearance, in Judaea. St. John chooses for his Resurrection instruction scenes which h

AND BEHOLD, I SEND THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU,.... By which is meant the promise of the Spirit, called the promise of the Father, because he was promised by the Father to be sent, and poured on the saints in the times of the Messiah, Isaiah 44:3 and because Christ promised to pray the Father for him, and to send him from him; and that the Father should send him in his name, who would fit and qualify them for, and assist them in bearing a testimony for him; since he would teach them all things, lead them into all truth, take of the things of Christ, and show them to them, and bring to their remembrance all things they had seen and heard: and this promise of the Father was to be sent in a very short time, in ten days time, as accordingly it was; and might be very properly said to be sent "upon" them, since, when he was sent down, he sat upon them in the appearance of fire; and this...

Luke 24:1. _Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:_ Brethren, they might have been much more perplexed if they had found the body of Jesus there, for then his promises would not have been fulfilled, and all their hopes would have been blighted forever. Unbelief is often the mother of needless perplexity. The resurrection of Christ is plain enough to us now; but to those who had seen him die, and whose faith was so very weak, it was a cause for perplexity that they could not find his dead body. They meant to embalm it, they had brou

UPON YOU See note, (_ See Scofield) - (Acts 2:4). _...

LUKE 24:49 kai. @ivdou.# evgw, {C} On the one hand, the agreement of î75 and D, along with a L 33 ita, b, c, d, e, ff2, l, r1 vg syrs, p copsa, bo, provides strong support for the shorter text. Likewise there is no reason why the solemn emphatic wording kai. ivdou. evgw,, which seems especially suitable for the last words of Jesus, should have been altered by copyists. On the other hand, however, the Committee, being impressed by the weight of the attestation supporting the reading kai. ivdou. evgw,, preferred to retain the word ivdou,, but to enclose it within square brackets, indicating doubt that it belongs in the...