Daily Verse Daily Verse by Faithlife | Luke 24:52-53
- Thread starter SCAdmin
- Start date
24:52 returned to Jerusalem The disciples obey Jesus’ command in Luke 24:49.
with great joy The disciples’ doubt, fear, and sadness (compare vv. 11, 17, 37) is replaced with joy after seeing the risen Jesus.
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Lk 24:52). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
24:52–53 As Jesus had requested (v. 49), the disciples returned to Jerusalem and stayed there until the events of the day of Pentecost (Ac 2). Luke mentions the great joy of the apostles—a theme he has stressed from beginning to end (see 1:14; 2:10; 10:20; 13:17; 15:5, 32; 19:37; 24:41, 52). Although at least some disciples were continually in the temple praising God during that time and later (Ac 2:46; 3:1), it should not be assumed that all of them were always there. Acts 1:13–14 also speaks of the apostles, some of the women disciples, and Jesus’s brothers (the sons of Joseph and Mary) being “continually united in prayer” in an upper room in Jerusalem. Such devotion to prayer was a fitting prelude and precondition to the wonderful things God would do through Christ’s earliest messengers. Christ’s church was set to explode onto the scene as a beacon of light and hope in a spiritually dark world.
Blaising, C. A. (2017). Christ in the Old Testament. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1660). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
