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Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don`t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
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The Strategic Wait
Jesus commanded the apostles to wait in Jerusalem for a specific reason. Commentators explain this was not an arbitrary delay but a strategic and symbolic act. It was to fulfill the prophecy that God's word would go forth from Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3) and to teach the apostles a lesson in obedience and dependence before they received the power for their global mission.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And being assembled together. Margin: "or, eating together." This meaning is given to this passage in the Latin Vulgate, Ethiopic…
Being assembled together with them (συναλιζομενος). Present passive participle from συναλιζω, an old verb in Herodotus, Xenophon, …
19th Century
Anglican
And, being assembled together with them.—The manuscripts present two forms of the participle: one with the meaning given …
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Baptist
They had not got rid of their old ideas concerning a kingdom visible among men; they still clung to the idea of a temporal kingdom for Israel. Ther…
In vv.4–5 Luke parallels his emphasis on the living Christ by stressing the coming and baptism of the Holy Spirit as essential to the advance of th…
16th Century
Protestant
Gathering them together, he commanded, etc. They had previously performed the duties of Apostles, but that lasted only a short time. Secon…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And being assembled together with them At their last meeting at Bethany, or Mount Olivet, which was by appointment: …
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, …
