Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
For it is written (gegraptai gar). Luke here returns to the address of Peter interrupted by verses Acts 1:18-19. Perfect passive indicative, the usual idiom in quoting scripture, stands written. Psa. 69 is often quoted as Messianic in Matthew and John.
His habitation (h epauliv autou). Only here in the N.T., a country house, cottage, cabin.
His office (thn episkophn autou). Our word bishopric (Authorized Version) is from this word, office of bishop (episcopov). Only that is not the idea here, but over-seership (epi, skopew) or office as in I Peter 2:12. It means to visit and to inspect, to look over. The ecclesiastical sense comes later (I Timothy 3:1).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 1:20:
Acts 1:16
Acts 1:18
1 Timothy 3:1
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