Acts 1:4 (WEB)
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.
Fathers and councils · 9
Theodoret of Cyrus
“…blessed Luke in the preface to the Acts says “being assembled together with the apostles the Lord commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem” and the very divine Peter says more distinctly: “Who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 4
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Augustine of Hippo
“For in that place were His disciples, who received the Holy Ghost sent from heaven on the fiftieth day after His resurrection.” — editor's note: Acts i. 4.
Read the whole comment“…with those other transactions on the first day of the week, that is to say, on the day on which the Lord rose again; whereas, in the Acts of the Apostles, the self-same Luke tells us that the event really took place on the fortieth day after His resurrection.” — editor's note: Acts i. 2–9.
Read the whole comment“This same that is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him going into heaven.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 3–11.
Read the whole comment“And the 1 is added to show that there is one who is expressed by seven on account of His sevenfold operation; and we know that it was on the fiftieth day after our Lord’s ascension that the Holy Spirit was sent, for whom the disciples were commanded to wait according to the promise.” — editor's note: Acts i. 4; ii. 2–4.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Mark
“We should observe that Luke says in the Acts, “As He was eating with them [convescens] He commanded that they should not depart from Jerusalem,” [Acts 1:4] and shortly afterwards, “while they beheld He was taken up.” [Acts 1:9] For He ate, and then ascended, that by the act of eating, the truth of the…” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“(For He was with them, and talked with them forty days, being assembled with them, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God— Acts i. 3, 4 ,)—“because now being in fear, ye give no heed to My words; but then when ye see Me risen again, and converse with Me, ye will be able to learn…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But here indeed it saith not that He ate with them, but Luke, in another place, saith that He did; for “He was eating together with them.” ( Acts i. 4.)” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…ye heard from My lips: for John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, which ye shall also receive not many days hence.” — editor's note: Acts i. 4, 5.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).