To whom also (οις κα). He chose them and then also manifested himself to these very same men that they might have personal witness…

He showed himself. The resurrection of Jesus was the great fact on which the truth of the gospel was to be established. Therefore…

After His passion.—Literally, after He had suffered. The English somewhat anticipates the later special sense of “passion…

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that…

Having stated the relation of his present book to its predecessor and shown his interest in the four factors named above, Luke turns back to the ti…

Unto whom, etc. He adds this so that he might cause the resurrection to be believed, as something most necessary to know, and without whic…

To whom also he showed himself alive after his pa ion

Our Lord told the disciples the work they were to do. The apostles met together at Jerusalem; Christ having ordered them not to depart from there, …