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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 1:8 - 1:8
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receive power - See Luk 24:49.
and ye shall be witnesses unto me ... in Jerusalem ... in all Judea ... and unto the uttermost part of the earth - This order of apostolic preaching and success supplies the proper key to the plan of the Acts, which relates first the progress of the Gospel “in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria” (the first through ninth chapters), and then “unto the uttermost part of the earth” (the tenth through twenty-eighth chapters).