Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
All authority (pasa ecousia). Jesus came close to them (proselqwn) and made this astounding claim. He spoke as one already in heaven with a world-wide outlook and with the resources of heaven at his command. His authority or power in his earthly life had been great (Matthew 7:29; Matthew 11:27; Matthew 21:23 f.). Now it is boundless and includes earth and heaven.
Hath been given (edoqh) is a timeless aorist (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 836f.). It is the sublimist of all spectacles to see the Risen Christ without money or army or state charging this band of five hundred men and women with world conquest and bringing them to believe it possible and to undertake it with serious passion and power. Pentecost is still to come, but dynamic faith rules on this mountain in Galilee.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 11:27
Matthew 28:7
Mark 16:15
John 3:35
John 17:2
John 20:21
Acts 1:2
Acts 1:3
Acts 1:4
Hebrews 1:2
Revelation 3:7
Revelation 12:10
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