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Acts 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

When for after that, A.V.; my witnesses for witnesses unto me, A.V. and T.R.; Samaria for in Samaria, A.V. Ye shall receive power ( δύναμιν); a word sped-ally used of the power of the Holy Spirit (see ).

"Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit" (; see too ); "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power" (); "Through the power of the Holy Ghost" (); "The demonstration of the Spirit and of power" (); "Strengthened with might ( δυνάμει) by his Spirit" (); "The powers of the world to come" ().

My witnesses. This function of the apostles, to be witnesses of Christ, is one much insisted upon in Scripture. So we read in , "Of these must one become ['be ordained,' A.V.] a witness with us of his resurrection."

So again in , "God … showed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us …. And he commanded us to testify," etc. (see also and of the same chapter; ; ; ; ; , ,; ; ; 1Jn 1-3, etc.

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