Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
they appointed--"put up" in nomination; meaning not the Eleven but the whole company, of whom Peter was the spokesman.
two--The choice would lie between a very few.
in those days--of expectant prayer, and probably towards the close of them, when the nature of their future work began more clearly to dawn upon them, and the Holy Ghost, already "breathed" on the Eleven (John 20:22), was stirring in Peter, who was to be the leading spirit of the infant community (Matthew 16:19).
the number . . . about an hundred and twenty--Many, therefore, of the "five hundred brethren" who saw their risen Lord "at once" (1 Corinthians 15:6), must have remained in Galilee.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 13:56
Acts 1:12-14
Acts 15:22-23
1 Corinthians 15:5
Colossians 4:11
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