14These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
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But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-14)We are here told, I. Whence Christ ascended— from the mount of Olives (Acts 1:12), from that part of it where the town of Bethany stood, Luke 24:50. There he began his sufferings (Luke 22:39), and therefore there he rolled away the reproach of them by his glorious ascension, and thus showed that his passion and his ascension had the same reference and tendency. Thus would he enter upon his kingdom…
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