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The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 1:6-8

Acts 1:6-8Wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?Before the AscensionI. The question of the apostles.1. The great awe produced by the first appearances of the risen Christ has worn off during the forty days. He and His are engaged in familiar converse as in days of old.2. The apostles are not backward to ask a question; and it reveals their old notions of Messianic dominion still indulged. They still think of the restoration of “the kingdom to Israel.”3. But their... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 1:8

Acts 1:8But ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you.The gift of powerAt first sight this promise seems to be Christ’s response to a universal craving. There is nothing which so awakens man’s ambition as power. It is sweeter to him than bread to the hungry, or home to the wanderer, or sunrise to the benighted; of all the Divine attributes this is the one he most intensely and incessantly covets. The old classic fable of Prometheus, who made a figure and shaped it after the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 1:8

8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Ver. 8. After that the Holy Ghost is come upon you ] Montanus the heresiarch wickedly affirmed that, next unto the apostles, this Scripture was fulfilled upon him and his courtesan Philumena. (Beza in loc.) Prodigious blasphemy! And eiusdem farinae, a loaf of the same leaven it is, that the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 1:8

ye shall: Acts 2:1-Numbers :, Acts 6:8, Acts 8:19, Micah 3:8, Zechariah 4:6, Luke 10:19, Revelation 11:3-Joshua : power: etc. or, the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, Luke 1:35, Luke 24:29, Romans 15:19 and ye: Acts 1:22, Acts 2:32, Acts 3:15, Acts 4:33, Acts 5:32, Acts 10:39-Mark :, Acts 13:31, Acts 22:15, Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:46-Ephesians :, John 15:27 in Samaria: Acts 8:5-Lamentations : unto: Psalms 22:27, Psalms 98:3, Isaiah 42:10, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 52:10,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.But ye shall receive power — and shall be witnesses to me - That is, ye shall be empowered to witness my Gospel, both by your preaching and suffering. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 1:4-26

I. PREPARATORIES FOR THE PENTECOST, Acts 1:4-26. From among the events of the forty days Luke selects those only now which are preparatory to the great manifestation at the Pentecost. For, just as the section of the Gospel immediately succeeding the introduction narrates the preparation for the advent of the Son; so this section presents the preparation for that great advent of the Spirit. Hence, we have here successively, 1. The command to wait at Jerusalem for the Pentecostal baptism, 4, 5;... read more