Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 1:6

"They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" — Acts 1:6 (ASV)

Lord, will you at this time restore again the kingdom?—More literally, are you restoring… Before the Passion the disciples had thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear (Luke 19:11). Then came the seeming failure of those hopes (Luke 24:21). Now they were revived by the Resurrection, but were still predominantly national. Even the Twelve were thinking, not of a kingdom of God, embracing all mankind, but of a sovereignty restored to Israel.