Acts 1:4

Acts 1:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
• New International Version (NIV)On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me;
• New King James Version (NKJV)And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me;

Context of Acts 1:4

2until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen. 3To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of things regarding the kingdom of God. Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; 5for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6So, when they had come together, they began asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time that You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 1:4 word by word

καὶ συναλιζόμενος παρήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων μὴ χωρίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ περιμένειν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ πατρὸς ἣν ἠκούσατέ μου·Read the interlinear

• He commandedπαραγγέλλωparaggellō · to orderG3853
• not to leaveχωρίζωchōrizō · to separate/leaveG5563
• JerusalemἹεροσόλυμαHierosoluma · JerusalemG2414
• but to waitπεριμένωperimenō · to awaitG4037
• what the Fatherπατήρpatēr · fatherG3962
• had promisedἐπαγγελίαepaggelia · promiseG1860
• “Whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• “you heardἀκούωakouō · to hearG191

Cross-references for Acts 1:4

• Acts 10:41not to all the people, but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.
• Luke 24:41While they still could not believe it because of their joy and astonishment, He said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
• Luke 24:49And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
• Acts 2:33Therefore, since He has been exalted at the right hand of God, and has received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you both see and hear.
• Matthew 10:20For it is not you who are speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you.
• Luke 11:13So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
• Luke 12:12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
• John 7:39But this He said in reference to the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
• John 14:16I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever;
• John 15:26“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, He will testify about Me,
• John 16:7But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
• John 20:22And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Commentaries on Acts 1:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4And, being assembled together - Instead of , being assembled together, several good MSS. and versions read , living or eating together, which refers the conversation reported here to some particular time, when he sat at meat, with his disciples. See Mark 16:14; : Luke 24:41-44. But probably the common reading is to be preferred; and the meeting on a mountain of Galilee is what is here meant. The promise of the Father - The Holy Spirit, which indeed was…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4And being assembled together - Margin, “or, eating together.” This sense is given to this place in the Latin Vulgate, the Ethiopic, and the Syriac versions. But the Greek word has not properly this signification. It has the meaning of “congregating, or assembling.” It should have been, however, translated in the active sense, “and having assembled them together.” The apostles were scattered after his death. But this passage denotes that he had assembled…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4wait for the gift the Father promised: See 2:1–13; compare with John 14:15–17.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-53-5. showed himself alive--As the author is about to tell us that "the resurrection of the Lord Jesus" was the great burden of apostolic preaching, so the subject is here filly introduced by an allusion to the primary evidence on which that great fact rests, the repeated and undeniable manifestations of Himself in the body to the assembled disciples, who, instead of being predisposed to believe it, had to be overpowered by the resistless evidence of their…Read the comment

Topics related to Acts 1:4

• God
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• Minister, Christian
• Trinity
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Commentaries on Acts 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings