8. receive power--See
Lu 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).
JFB.
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