Beginning from the baptism of John—by whom our Lord was not only Himself baptized, but first officially announced and introduced to his own disciples.
unto that same day when he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection—How clearly is the primary office of the apostles here expressed: (1) to testify, from personal observation, to the one great fact of "the resurrection of the Lord Jesus"; (2) to show how this glorified His whole previous life, of which they were constant observers, and established His divine claims.
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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