Acts 1:13 meaning and explanation

When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

Acts 1:13, Berean Standard Bible

Explanation preview

After the ascension the disciples return from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem and gather in an upper room, likely a borrowed rooftop guest room of the kind Palestinian homes had. Luke lists the eleven remaining apostles, pairing them in a way that recalls how Jesus sent them out two by two.

Read and study this verse. Three complete study layers are included with Premium.

Read this verse in the app