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The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:2

The Holy Ghost in Christ. The statement in this verse is that our Lord spake, and gave his parting injunctions to his disciples, as one who was "filled with the Holy Ghost." Christ's Divine nature is set before us in varying forms; and we should take care lest the demands of Christian doctrine so absorb us as to prevent our receiving the whole scriptural impression. Especially difficult it is to connect the divinity of Christ with the revelation of the Divine Spirit, the Holy Ghost. The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:2

Until the day - The 40th day after the resurrection, Acts 1:3. See Luke 24:51.In which he was taken up - In which he ascended to heaven. He was taken up into a cloud, and is represented as having been borne or carried to heaven, Acts 1:9.After that ... - This passage has been variously rendered. The Syriac translates it, “After he had given commandment unto the apostles whom he had chosen by the Holy Spirit.” So also the Ethiopic version. Others have joined the words “through the Holy Spirit”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 1:1-3

Acts 1:1-3. The former treatise have I made, &c. The treatise here referred to is undoubtedly the gospel, which was written by Luke, and dedicated by him to Theophilus. See note on Luke 1:1-2. That treatise ends, and this begins, in that important season, which reached from the resurrection of Christ to his ascension; this describing the acts of the Holy Ghost, (by the apostles,) as that does the acts of Jesus Christ; of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach That is, of all... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 1:1-11

1:1-2:47 BIRTH OF THE CHURCHThe task ahead (1:1-11)Theophilus, to whom the book is addressed, was apparently a person of influence to whom Luke wished to give a reliable account of the origins and development of Christianity. In his Gospel, Luke had told Theophilus of what Jesus began to do through his life, death and resurrection (1:1-2; cf. Luke 1:1-4). Luke now goes on to tell Theophilus what Jesus continued to do through his followers.On the occasions when Jesus appeared to his apostles... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 1:2

taken up = received up. Compare Mark 16:19 . after that He . . . had = having. through. Greek. dia. App-104 .Acts 1:1 . the Holy Ghost = Divine power. App-101 . given commandments unto = commanded. the apostles. See App-189 . had chosen = chose out (Luke 6:13 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 1:2

Until that day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen.He was received up ... This statement makes the ascension of Jesus Christ to have been something God did for Jesus, and not something that Jesus did himself. This corresponds with Daniel's prophecy that "they brought him near before him" (Daniel 7:13), and also with the mandatory deduction from Luke's parable of the pounds to the effect that Jesus did not... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 1:2

Acts 1:2. Through the Holy Ghost had given, &c.— By the influence and assistance of the Holy Spirit, with which he himself was anointed, "the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in him bodily." It is no wonder, considering how short a history we have between Christ's resurrection and ascension, that this should be the only place which speaks of his acting by the Spirit after he arose from the dead. His breathing on the apostles, and saying, Receive ye the Holy Spirit, Joh 20:22 confirms the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:2

2. after that he, through the Holy Ghost, had given commandments, c.—referring to the charge recorded in Matthew 28:18-20 Mark 16:15-18; Luke 24:44-49. It is worthy of notice that nowhere else are such communications of the risen Redeemer said to have been given "through the Holy Ghost." In general, this might have been said of all He uttered and all He did in His official character; for it was for this very end that God "gave not the Spirit by measure unto Him" ( :-). But after His... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 1:1-5

1. The resumptive preface to the book 1:1-5Luke wrote these introductory statements to connect the Book of Acts with his Gospel. [Note: See Longenecker, p. 252, for an explanation of the parallel structures of Luke 1-2 and Acts 1-2.] In the former book Luke had recorded what Jesus had begun to do and to teach during His earthly ministry. In this second book he wrote what Jesus continued doing to build His church through Spirit-indwelt Christians (cf. John 14:12). read more