Acts 1:13-15
1599 Geneva Bible
13 [a]And when they were [b]come in, they went up into an upper chamber, where abode both Peter and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zealot, and Judas James’s brother.
14 These all [c]continued with [d]one accord in [e]prayer and supplication with the [f]women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his [g]brethren.
15 [h]And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said (now the number of [i]names that were in one place were about an hundred and twenty.)
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- Acts 1:13 Ecclesiastical assemblies to hear the word, and to make common prayer, were first instituted and kept in private houses by the Apostles.
- Acts 1:13 They went into the house, which the Church hath chosen at that time to be a receipt for the whole assembly.
- Acts 1:14 The Greek word signified an invincible constancy, and steadiness.
- Acts 1:14 It is to good purpose, that this concord is mentioned: for those prayers are most acceptable to God which are made with agreeing minds and wills.
- Acts 1:14 The disciples prayed for the sending of the holy Ghost, and also to be delivered from present dangers wherewith they were beset.
- Acts 1:14 For it was behoovable to have the wives confirmed, who were afterward to be partakers of the dangers with their husbands.
- Acts 1:14 With his kinfolks.
- Acts 1:15 Peter is made the mouth and interpreter of the whole company of the Apostles, either by secret revelation of the holy Ghost, or by express judgment of the Congregation.
- Acts 1:15 Because men are commonly billed and enrolled by their names.
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