Acts 1:15
Brethren ( αδελφων ). Codex Bezae has "disciples."Multitude of persons ( οχλος ονοματων ). Literally, multitude of names. This Hebraistic use of ονομα =person occurs in the LXX (Nu 1:2; 18:20; 3:40, 43; 26:53) and in Re 3:4; 11:13.
Together ( επ το αυτο ). The word "gathered" is not in the Greek here, but it does occur in Mt 22:34 and that is undoubtedly the idea in Lu 17:35 as in Ac 2:1, 44, 47; 1Co 11:20; 14:23. So also here. They were in the same place ( το αυτο ).
About a hundred and twenty ( ως εκατον εικοσ ). A crowd for "the upper room." No special significance in the number 120, just the number there.
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