“You are witnesses of these things.”
And the message that has just been described is the message to which they are to be witnesses. That is why they have been called. It is in order to bear witness to the One Who has suffered and risen again so that He might bring them under the Kingly Rule of God.
Verse 48. _YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS._] He gave them a full commission to proclaim these glad tidings of peace and salvation to a lost world. The disciples were _witnesses_ not only that Chris...
ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS - Of my life, my sufferings, my death, and my resurrection. How solemn was their office - to “testify” these things to the world, and, in the face of suffering and death,...
VII. HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The Resurrection. (Luke 24:1)_ 2. The Walk to Emmaus; the Appearance of the Risen Son of Man. (Luke 24:13) 3. The Appearance to the Eleven. (Luk...
THE LAST WORDS AND THE ASCENSION. Jesus reminds His disciples how He had told them that Scripture predictions about Him must be fulfilled. He goes over the ground again (with Luke 24:45 _cf._ Luke 24:...
THE WRONG PLACE TO LOOK (Luke 24:1-12)...
While they were still speaking, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you!" They were terrified and afraid, because they thought that they were seeing a spirit. He said to them...
WITNESSES. witness-bearers. Compare Acts 1:8; Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:33; Acts 5:30, &
_ye are witnesses_ John 15:27. How prominent in the minds of the Apostles was this ministry of _witness_may be seen from Acts 1:8; Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15;...
ΜΆΡΤΥΡΕΣ. John 15:27. How prominent in the minds of the Apostles was this ministry of _witness_ may be seen from Acts 1:8; Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15;...
APPEARANCE OF JESUS TO THE APOSTLES...
Ver 45. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, 46. And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the thi...
AND YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS.— That this was the grand business of the apostles, is evident; and the ingenious author of _Miscellanea Sacra_ has taken great pains to shew how the title of witn...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Jesus-' Appearance to the Eleven Scripture_ Luke 24:36-49 And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37 But t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Eleven Commissioned, Again (Luke 24:44-53) 44 Then he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me...
And ye are witnesses of these things. AND YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS (see the notes at ; )....
22 Compare 1-11 24 Compare 12 Joh_20:2-16 36-40 Compare Mar_16:14; Joh_20:19-23 39 The nature of our Lord's resurrection is nowhere more clearly revealed than in His efforts to convince the trembli...
Summary of instructions given during the Forty Days. 44. The law.. the prophets.. the psalms stand for the three divisions of the OT. Canon recognised by the Jews. The 'Prophets' include the historic...
THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION 1-11. Two angels appear to the women at the sepulchre (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1 : cp. John 20:1). See on Mt and Jn....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 THE *RESURRECTION 24:1-12 V1 Very early on the first day of the week, the women went to the *tomb. They carried the *spices that they had prepared...
YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. — Here again we have a link connecting the Gospel with the Acts, the key-note of which, especially in the earlier Chapter s, is that the disciples are to be “witnesse...
CHAPTER 26 THE FIRST LORD'S DAY. THE Sabbath came and went over the grave of its Lord, and silence reigned in Joseph's garden, broken only by the mailed sentinels, who laughed and chatted by, the sea...
_Parting words_. εἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖς : it is at this point, if anywhere, that room must be made for an extended period of occasional intercourse between Jesus and His disciples such as Acts 1:3 speaks of....
μάρτυρες τ., the witnessing function refers mainly to the resurrection, not exclusively as Luke 1:2 shows....
“WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS” Luke 24:44-53 The risen Savior is the key to Scripture. The pages of Holy Writ need the illumination that falls from His face. Whenever you open the Old Testament, descri...
No human eye saw the resurrection. The women came early, but only to find the stone rolled away. The record of those earliest experiences is full of touching beauty. Luke alone gives us the story of t...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
5. _The last Instructions: Luke 24:44-49_. VERS. 44-49. Meyer, Bleek, and others think that all the sayings which follow were uttered this same evening, and that the ascension itself must, according t...
"And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
48._And you are witnesses of those things. _He does not yet commission them to preach the gospel, but only reminds them to what service he has appointed them, that they may prepare themselves for it i...
But the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, had prepared everything for the burial of His Son, who had glorified Him by giving Himself up to death. He is with the rich in His death. Jos...
AND YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. As they were witnesses of the truth of his humanity, having seen, and heard, and handled him, both before, and after his resurrection from the dead, and of all th...
And ye are witnesses of these things. Ver. 48. _And ye are witnesses_] Therefore prepare to preach the Gospel to every creature. And take it for a singular seal of my love, that notwithstanding your...
_And he said to them_ Not, as appears, on the day of his resurrection, but on that of his ascension. _These are the words which I spake to you_ In private, frequently; _while I was yet with you_ Dwell...
THESE THINGS; his life, miracles, teaching, death, and resurrection on the third day according to the Scriptures, proving him, beyond the possibility of a mistake, to be the true Messiah, and that thr...
AND YE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS....
Further proof of the Risen Savior's reality:...
HE IS NOT HERE. BUT RISEN (vs.1-12) Though these dear women came to the grave very early in the morning the first day of the week, they were too late. Mary of Bethany had anointed the Lord Jesus befo...
36-49 Jesus appeared in a miraculous manner, assuring the disciples of his peace, though they had so lately forsaken him, and promising spiritual peace with every blessing. Many troublesome thoughts...
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Five Books in Reply to Marcion Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]...
Luke 24:48 And G1161 you G5210 are G2075 (G5748) witnesses G3144 things G5130 John 15:27;...
OUR LORD'S RESURRECTION BODY. The Gospel statements indicate-that at this time our Lord had a real body, identical with His pre-resurrection body and with His glorified body, and yet differing from bo...
Luke 24:48. Ye. The Apostles, but others may have been present Acts 1:22 hints that others saw Him ascend. WITNESSES. As such they were to proclaim the facts (Luke 24:46), and the repentance and remi...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:13. _And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. Ministry of the risen Christ. His commission to evangelization. The ascension. CHARACTERS: Jesus, angels, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary mother of James, Peter, discip...
Luke 24:21. _To-day is the third day._ Christ was to rise the third day, according to the scriptures, as he had intimated to the disciples. Matthew 20:19. See also Genesis 22:4;...
THEN HE SAID TO THEM. Luke passes over an interval of weeks, between Luke 24:43-44. Christ was seen a number of times after his resurrection (see notes on Matthew 28:9). THEN HE OPENED THEIR MINDS. To...
_Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them_ THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE RISEN LORD TO THE ELEVEN I. THE CERTAINTY OF OUR LORD’S RESURRECTION. No fact in history is better attested. 1. Observe, that w...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:48 WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. As eyewitnesses, the disciples served as guardians of the gospel tradition (Luke 1:2)....
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:1 The Resurrection of Jesus. Luke’s Gospel began in the temple (Luke 1:5). After Jesus has risen from the dead, it will conclude in the temple as well ...
CHAPTER 24 VER. 1. _Now upon the first day of the week._ The first day after the Sabbath, the Lord's day, _i.e._ the day on which Christ rose from the dead. See S. Matthew 28:1....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 24:44. THESE ARE THE WORDS.—_I.e._, “this is the meaning of the words.” Probably in Luke 24:44 St. Luke gives a summary of Christ’s discourses during the time between the Resurre...
EXPOSITION LUKE 24:1 THE RESURRECTION. All the four evangelists give an account of the Resurrection. None of the four, however, attempt to give a _history _of_ _it simply from a human point of sight...
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled aw...
1 John 1:2; 1 John 1:3; Acts 1:22; Acts 1:8; Acts 10:39;...
CHRIST'S MISSIONARY COMMAND AS SEEN IN THE EARLY CHURCH Matthew 28:18; _Mark 16:15; Luke 24:45_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS As the time came for the Lord to leave, and to return to His Father, He pressed upo...