![]() ![]() ![]() Margin this would have been the most highly attended of the prayer times. This afternoon prayer time immediately preceded the evening sacrifices, so by an overwhelming Twelve with us and the NINTH hour, mentioned in this verse, and answering to our three in the The THIRD hour, Acts 2:15,Īnswering to our nine o'clock in the morning the SIXTH hour, Acts 10:9, answering to about There are three distinct times marked in the book of the Acts. "The ninth hour, the hour of prayer"-It appears that there were three hours of the dayĭestined by the Jews to public prayer perhaps they are referred to by David: Evening and morning and at noon, I will complain and murmur, And He will hear Later they will separate from the temple. So their place of worship hasn't changed, but they now understand that Jesus is the Christ, and House to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of Says: And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple,Īnd then in Chapter 2 of Acts it says: And day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from Here we see the new Christians going to the Jewish temple to worship. Working together and ministering to each other, encouraging each other. Even today we see the greater effectiveness of believers I think there was a reason for this They were sent out in pairs forĮncouragement and mutual support. Peter and John being together seems to suggest that the apostles continued to go around in pairsĪs they had done while preaching during the ministry of Jesus (Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1), and as Paul Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of It was probably a relatively short period of time. Nobody knows for sure how much time passed between the events of chapter 2 and the beginning This miracle in order that it might teach us something very significant. Of the lame man who was healed at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. Today we are going to see one of the "many wonders and signs" which the apostles did-the story Summary of the life of the early Church, he has told us: And everyone kept feeling a sense of awe and many wonders and signs were taking Now goes on to deal with the way in which the infant Church rapidly expanded. Pentecost having taken place, and the infant Church having been shown to be established, Luke We, theĬhurch, are the New Israel of God, and in us all the promises made to the Fathers are fulfilled. God was now to dwell, not in a tent, but with His people. It was the birthday of theĬhurch of Jesus Christ. Pentecost was the fulfillment, the anti-type, of the type given to Israel. For the last several months we have been studying what happened on the day of Pentecost.
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