Acts 1:4 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4

The Divine equipment. "Wait for the promise of the Father." The great Head of the Church addressing its leaders. The Son of God speaking to those who themselves should receive power to become the sons of God, and to lilt up the world into a Divine household. In the infancy of the Church all depended on simple obedience to orders. Immense evil from not waiting for God's time and preparation. Here are the two guiding lights—the promise unfolding the prospect, the commandment marking... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4

The supreme promise to the Church. "Commanded them that they should … wait for the promise of the Father." The exact designation here employed to describe the gift, and the special gift, of the Holy Ghost—namely, "the promise of the Father"—is confined to the writing of St. Luke; as it were, the outcome of his assiduous memory. In the Gospel ( Luke 24:49 ) he remembers it to quote it, in its completest precision: "Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you." These are the two... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4-5

"The promise of the Father." It was a characteristic feature of our Lord's teaching, and more especially of the closing portions of it, that he sought to set his Father, not himself, prominently before the minds of his disciples: e.g. "The Father that is in me, he doeth the works;" "I do the will of him who sent me," etc. So, when speaking of the gift of the Spirit to the Church, our Lord impresses on the disciples that they must think of that Spirit as his Father's gift, made to them... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:4

And being assembled together - Margin, “or, eating together.” This sense is given to this place in the Latin Vulgate, the Ethiopic, and the Syriac versions. But the Greek word has not properly this signification. It has the meaning of “congregating, or assembling.” It should have been, however, translated in the active sense, “and having assembled them together.” The apostles were scattered after his death. But this passage denotes that he had assembled them together by his authority, for the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 1:4-5

Acts 1:4-5. Being assembled together with them Namely, at Jerusalem, to which place they had gone to prepare themselves for the feast of pentecost, or rather, in obedience to Christ’s command, who, after he had met them in Galilee, had appointed them to meet him there, that he might spend his last days on earth in that once holy city, doing this last honour to the place where God had chosen to dwell, and where the most solemn ordinances of his worship had been administered. He commanded... 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 1:4

being assembled together with. Greek. sunalizomai. Only here. commanded. Greek. parangello. First occurance Matthew 10:5 . Compare App-121 .:6. Not the same word as in Acts 1:2 . depart = separate themselves. Greek. charizo. First occurance, Matthew 19:6 . wait for. Greek. perimeno . Only here. promise of the Father. See App-17 . Compare Luke 24:49 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 1:4

And being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me.Assembled together ... The Greek text here may be translated "eating with them," and thus there were possibly many occasions when Jesus ate food with his apostles after he was raised from the dead. Luke also in his gospel mentioned Jesus' eating with the apostles (Luke 24:43); and Peter referred to it in Acts 10:41. To be sure, the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 1:4

Acts 1:4. That they should not depart, &c.— This seems a plain intimation that, after our Lord had met his disciples in Galilee, he appointed the apostles to meet him in Jerusalem, or perhaps accompanied them thither, and as man spent his last days on earth there; doing his last honour to the place where the Godhead had in a peculiar sense chosen to dwell, and where the most solemn ordinances of his worship had been administered. There is nothing for the words saith he, in the original, but... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:4

4. should not depart from Jerusalem—because the Spirit was to glorify the existing economy, by descending on the disciples at its metropolitan seat, and at the next of its great festivals after the ascension of the Church's Head; in order that "out of Zion might go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" ( :-; and compare Luke 24:49). read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 1:4-5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 1:4-5

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 1:1-11

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 1:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 1:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 1:4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 1:4

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