Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
receive power—See Luke 24:49.
and ye shall be witnesses unto me . . . in Jerusalem . . . in all Judea . . . and unto the uttermost part of the earth—This order of apostolic preaching and success supplies the proper key to the plan of the Acts, which relates first the progress of the Gospel "in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria" (the first through ninth chapters), and then "unto the uttermost part of the earth" (the tenth through twenty-eighth chapters).
wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?—Doubtless their carnal views of Messiah's kingdom had by this time been modified, though how far it is impossible to say. But, as they plainly looked for some restoration of the kingdom to Israel, so they are neither rebuked nor contradicted on this point.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 1:8:
Isaiah 40:9
Micah 3:8
Matthew 10:5
Luke 24:48
Acts 1:1-2
Acts 8:4
Acts 8:25
1 Thessalonians 1:5
2 Thessalonians 1:10
2 Timothy 1:7
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