Acts 1:21 NLT,NIV,ESV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 1:15-26

The choice of Matthias 1:15-26 read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 1:21-22

Why did Peter believe it was "necessary" to choose someone to take Judas’ place? Evidently he remembered Jesus’ promise that the 12 disciples would sit on 12 thrones in the messianic kingdom judging the 12 tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:30; cf. Revelation 21:14). To be as qualified for this ministry as the other 11 disciples the twelfth had to have met the conditions Peter specified."In Acts 1:21 Peter speaks not of being with Jesus but of going with him on his journeys. . . . This... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Acts 1:21

1:21 which (d-18) Or 'at every time that.' read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 1:1-26

The Ascension. Election of Matthias1-5. St. Luke’s Introduction. He recapitulates the general contents of his Gospel, adding, however, this additional information, (1) that the appearances of the risen Lord were numerous, and (2) that forty days elapsed between the Resurrection and the Ascension. If we possessed St. Luke’s Gospel only, we might possibly conclude that the risen Lord appeared only three times, and that He ascended on the very day of His Resurrection.1. The former treatise] i.e.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 1:21

(21) Wherefore of these men which have companied with us.—From the retrospective glance at the guilt and punishment of the traitor, Peter passes, as with a practical sagacity, to the one thing that was now needful for the work of the infant Church. They, the Apostles, must present themselves to the people in their symbolic completeness, as sent to the twelve tribes of Israel, and the gap left by the traitor must be filled by one qualified, as they were, to bear witness of what had been said or... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Acts 1:1-26

The Acts of the Apostles Acts 1:1 The keynote to the book of the Acts of the Apostles lies in the word ἢρξατο of the first verse. That ἤρξατο is not pleonastic. It is the acts 'which Jesus began,' but has not finished . Dr. John Duncan, Colloquia Peripatetica, p. 138. Reference. Expositor (4th Series), vol. vi. p. 162. Witnesses of the Resurrection The Message to a Few Acts 1:0 It would seem that our Lord gave His attention to a few, because, if the few be gained, the many will follow. To... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Acts 1:1-26

Analysis and Annotations Part I The Witness to Jerusalem. The Advent of the Spirit and the Formation of the Church. The Offer to Israel and its Rejection. Chapters 1-7 CHAPTER 1 1. The Introduction (Acts 1:1-3 ). 2. The final words of the risen Lord (Acts 1:4-8 ). 3. The ascension (Acts 1:9-11 ). 4. The waiting company (Acts 1:12-14 ). 5. Matthias chosen in the place of Judas (Acts 1:15-26 ). The introductory words prove that Luke is the writer. In the former treatise, Luke had... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Acts 1:21

1:21 {8} Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus {t} went in and out among us,(8) The Apostles do not deliberate at all, but first they consult and take guidance from God’s word: and again they do nothing that concerns and is incumbent upon the whole body of the congregation, without making the congregation a part of the decision.(t) This kind of speech signifies as much in the Hebrew language as the exercising of a public and difficult office, when... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 1:1-26

Verse 1 establishes the fact that Luke (a Gentile) is the writer, "the former treatise" being his Gospel (Luke 1:1-3). In that case Theophilus is addressed as "most excellent," manifestly a public official of importance. It may be likely that he gave up such an office when brought to God by the gospel, for he is not so addressed in Acts. Luke wrote of "all that Jesus began both to do and to teach." Acts therefore is a continuance of this same work of the Lord Jesus, though He Himself has been... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Acts 1:1-26

FROM RESURRECTION TO PENTECOST Following our plan in the preceding books, we waive the consideration of the human authorship of the Acts and other questions of Biblical introduction and enter at once on the text. It is assumed from verses one and two compared with the opening verses of the third gospel, that “Luke, the beloved physician” (Colossians 4:14 ), was the author chosen by the Holy Spirit. It is also assumed from verse two, that it is not so much the acts of the apostles he here... read more