Acts 1
Introduction
Verses 1–5
In these verses, I. Theophilus is put in mind, and we in him, of St. Luke’s gospel, which it will be of use for us to cast an eye upon before we enter upon the study of this book, that we may not only see how this begins where that breaks off, but that, as in water face answers to face, so do the…
Verses 6–11
In Jerusalem Christ, by his angel, had appointed his disciples to meet him in Galilee; there he appointed them to meet him in Jerusalem again, such a day.
Verses 12–14
We are here told, I. Whence Christ ascended— from the mount of Olives , from that part of it where the town of Bethany stood, Luke 24:50. There he began his sufferings , and therefore there he rolled away the reproach of them by his glorious ascension, and thus showed that his passion and his…
Verses 15–26
The sin of Judas was not only his shame and ruin, but it made a vacancy in the college of the apostles. They were ordained twelve, with an eye to the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve patriarchs; they were the twelve stars that make up the church’s crown , and for them twelve…
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