Acts 1:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

stood up. rose up. Greek. anistemi. App-178.

disciples. The texts read "brethren".

number. Greek. ochlos, crowd. This is an occurance of the Figure of speech Epitrechon.

together. to the same (place). Greek. epi to auto. See Acts 2:1; Acts 2:44; Acts 4:26. 1Co 7:5. 1 Corinthians 11:20; 1 Corinthians 14:23.

an hundred and twenty. three forties.. divinely appointed number during. period of waiting. It -was the number of Ezra's great synagogue. See App-10.

Acts 1:15

15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)