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Acts 1:4-6
Lexham English Bible
Acts 1:4-6
Lexham English Bible
4 And while he[a] was with[b] them,[c] he commanded them, “Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me. 5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”[d]
The Ascension
6 So when[e] they had come together, they began asking[f] him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
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- Acts 1:4 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was with”) which is understood as temporal
- Acts 1:4 Or “was assembling with,” or “was sharing a meal with”
- Acts 1:4 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Acts 1:5 Literally “not many days after these”
- Acts 1:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had come together”) which is understood as temporal
- Acts 1:6 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)
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