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Rock-Solid Proof
Commentators emphasize that Luke uses a specific Greek word for "proofs" (tekmerion) that signifies undeniable, certain evidence, not just circumstantial signs. Scholars like Spurgeon argue the resurrection is more historically certain than many other accepted historical events. The evidence included numerous witnesses, physical interactions, and appearances over 40 days, all designed to remove any doubt.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 1:3
18th Century
Theologian
He showed himself. The resurrection of Jesus was the great fact on which the truth of the gospel was to be established. Therefore…
AT Robertson
On Acts 1:3
To whom also (οις κα). He chose them and then also manifested himself to these very same men that they might have personal witness…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 1:3
19th Century
Bishop
After His passion.—Literally, after He had suffered. The English somewhat anticipates the later special sense of “passion…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Acts 1:1–3
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 1:3
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…
John Calvin
On Acts 1:3
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Acts 1:3
17th Century
Pastor
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion
That is, after his sufferings and death; for that he suffer…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 1:1–5
17th Century
Minister
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, …