Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
prayed and said, Thou, Lord, etc.—"The word 'Lord,' placed absolutely, denotes in the New Testament almost universally THE SON; and the words, 'Show whom Thou hast chosen,' are decisive. The apostles are just Christ's messengers: It is He that sends them, and of Him they bear witness. Here, therefore, we have the first example of a prayer offered to the exalted Redeemer; furnishing indirectly the strongest proof of His divinity" [OLSHAUSEN].
which knowest the hearts of all men—See John 2:24-25; John 21:15-17; Revelation 2:23.
in those days—of expectant prayer, and probably towards the close of them, when the nature of their future work began more clearly to dawn upon them, and the Holy Ghost, already "breathed" on the Eleven (John 20:22), was stirring in Peter, who was to be the leading spirit of the infant community (Matthew 16:19).
the number . . . about an hundred and twenty—Many, therefore, of the "five hundred brethren" who saw their risen Lord "at once" (I Corinthians 15:6), must have remained in Galilee.
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