Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I send--the present tense, to intimate its nearness.
promise of my Father--that is, what My Father hath promised; the Holy Ghost, of which Christ is the authoritative Dispenser (John 14:7; Revelation 3:1; Revelation 5:6).
endued--invested, or clothed with; implying, as the parallels show (Romans 13:14; 1 Corinthians 15:53; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 3:9-10), their being so penetrated and acted upon by conscious supernatural power (in the full sense of that word) as to stamp with divine authority the whole exercise of their apostolic office, including, of course, their pen as well as their mouth.
These are the words, etc.--that is, "Now you will understand what seemed so dark to you when I told you about the Son of man being put to death and rising again" (Luke 18:31-34).
while . . . yet with you--a striking expression, implying that He was now, as the dead and risen Saviour, virtually dissevered from this scene of mortality, and from all ordinary intercourse with His mortal disciples.
law . . . prophets . . . psalms--the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament Scriptures.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 40:9
Micah 3:8
Mark 16:15
Acts 1:2
Acts 1:4
Acts 1:8
Galatians 3:14
2 Timothy 1:7
Hebrews 9:15
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