Acts 1:4

"Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me."

Key Reflection

When Jesus gave this command in Acts 1:4, he was instructing his disciples shortly after his resurrection and ascension. The original audience would have understood that they were to remain faithful by staying in Jerusalem—a symbolic location where the covenant between God and Israel had been established. This was not just a random instruction but part of Jesus’ plan for the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Spirit, which he had earlier mentioned (Acts 1:5).

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 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 sense. 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 purpose of giving them a charge respecting their conduct when he should have left them.

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