Brethren (αδελφων). Codex Bezae has "disciples."

Multitude of persons (οχλος ονοματων). Literally, multitu…

In those days. On one of the days intervening between the ascension of Jesus and the day of Pentecost.

Peter stood up. Pet…

The number of names together were about an hundred and twenty.—The number probably included the Seventy of Luke 10:1, per…

In keeping with his character portrayal of Peter throughout his gospel, Luke here presents Peter as taking the lead among the apostles. The word “b…

It was fitting that Matthias should be chosen for Judas's place, so that, through the treachery of one man, all that Christ had once appointed migh…

And in those days Peter stood up
That is, in one of the days after Christ's ascension, and before the day of Penteco…

The great thing the apostles were to attest to the world was Christ's resurrection, for that was the great proof of His being the Me iah and the fo…