Acts 1:15

Amplified Bible

Now on one of these days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty believers was there) and he said,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And in those dayes Peter stoode vp in the middes of the disciples, and sayde (nowe the nomber of names that were in one place were about an hundreth and twentie.)

Christian Standard Bible®
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters—the number of people who were together was about a hundred and twenty—and said:

Hebrew Names Version
In these days, Kefa stood up in the midst of the talmidim (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

Darby Translation
And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names [who were] together [was] about a hundred and twenty,)

Easy-to-Read Version
After a few days there was a meeting of the believers. There were about 120 of them. Peter stood up and said,

American Standard Version
And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

Berean Standard Bible
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

Contemporary English Version
One day there were about one hundred twenty of the Lord's followers meeting together, and Peter stood up to speak to them.

Complete Jewish Bible
During this period, when the group of believers numbered about 120, Kefa stood up and addressed his fellow-believers:

International Standard Version
At that timeIn those days">[fn] Peter got up among the brothers (there were about 120 people present) and said,Revelation 3:4;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
AND in those days arose Shemun Kipha in the midst of the disciples;-now there was there an assembly of men as an hundred and twenty;-and said,

Murdock Translation
And in those days stood up Simon Cephas in the midst of the disciples, (the persons there assembled being about one hundred and twenty,) and said:

King James Version (1611)
And in those dayes Peter stood vp in the mids of the disciples, and said, (The number of names together were about an hundred and twentie)

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in those dayes, Peter stoode vp in the middes of the disciples, and said (The number of names together, were about an hundred and twentie)

English Revised Version
And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

King James Version
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Lexham English Bible
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and it was a crowd of persons of about one hundred twenty at the same place) and said,

Literal Translation
And in these days, standing up in the middle of the disciples, (and the number of names together being about a hundred and twenty), Peter said,

New Century Version
During this time there was a meeting of the believers (about one hundred twenty of them). Peter stood up and said,

New English Translation
In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

New King James Version
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples [fn] (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,

New Living Translation
During this time, when about 120 believers were together in one place, Peter stood up and addressed them.

New Life Bible
On one of those days Peter got up in front of the followers. (There were about 120 people there.) He said,

New Revised Standard
In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in these days, Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, - and there was a multitude of names, of one accord, about a hundred and twenty, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):

George Lamsa Translation
And in those days Simon Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (there were there a number of men, about a hundred and twenty), and said,

Good News Translation
A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about a hundred and twenty in all, and Peter stood up to speak.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said (the number of the names together were about a hundred and twenty,)

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And in these days, Peter standing up in the midst of the disciples, (the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty) said,

Weymouth's New Testament
It was on one of these days that Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren--the entire number of persons present being about 120--and said,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In tho daies Petre roos vp in the myddil of the britheren, and seide; and ther was a company of men togidere, almest an hundrid and twenti;

Young's Literal Translation
And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)

World English Bible
In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about one hundred twenty), and said,

Revised Standard Version
In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And in those dayes Peter stode vp in the myddes of the disciples and sayde (the noumbre of names that were to gether were aboute an hondred and twenty)

Update Bible Version
And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers, and said (and there was a multitude of names of about a hundred and twenty in all),

Bible in Basic English
And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,

New American Standard Bible
At this time Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (a group of about 120 people was there together), and said,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And in those dayes Peter stode vp in the myddes amonge the disciples, and sayde: (The company of the names together, was aboute an hundreth and twentye.)

Mace New Testament (1729)
At that time the disciples being assembled, to the number of about an hundred and twenty, Peter rose up in the midst of them,

THE MESSAGE
During this time, Peter stood up in the company—there were about 120 of them in the room at the time—and said, "Friends, long ago the Holy Spirit spoke through David regarding Judas, who became the guide to those who arrested Jesus. That Scripture had to be fulfilled, and now has been. Judas was one of us and had his assigned place in this ministry.

Simplified Cowboy Version
At this time, there were about 120 people in the room.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
At this time Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty persons was there together), and said,

Legacy Standard Bible
And in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (a crowd of about 120 persons was there together), and said,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵Now on one of these days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty believers was there) and he said,¹⁶"Brothers and sisters, it was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the lips of David [king of Israel] about Judas [Iscariot], who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷"For he (Judas) was counted among us and received his share [by divine allotment] in this ministry." ¹⁸(Now Judas Iscariot acquired a piece of land [indirectly] with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery, and falling headlong, his body burst open in the middle and all his intestines poured out. ¹⁹All the people in Jerusalem learned about this, so in their own dialect—Aramaic—they called the piece of land Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) ²⁰"For in the book of Psalms it is written, 'LET HIS PLACE OF RESIDENCE BECOME DESOLATE, AND LET THERE BE NO ONE TO LIVE IN IT'; and [again], 'LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS POSITION AS OVERSEER.' ²¹"So of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus spent with us, ²²beginning with the baptism by John [at the outset of Jesus' ministry] until the day when He was taken up from us—one of these men must become a witness with us [to testify] of His resurrection." ²³And they put forward two men, Joseph, the one called Barsabbas (who was surnamed Justus), and Matthias. ²⁴They prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know all hearts [their thoughts, motives, desires], show us which one of these two You have chosen

Bible Verse Review
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Peter: Psalms 32:5, Psalms 32:6, Psalms 51:9-13, Luke 22:32, John 21:15-17, the names, Revelation 3:4, Revelation 11:13,*Gr.

an: Acts 21:20,*Gr: Matthew 13:31, John 14:12, 1 Corinthians 15:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 72:16 - There Isaiah 45:2 - make Matthew 13:32 - the least Acts 2:3 - sat Acts 2:41 - added

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in those days Peter stood up,.... That is, in one of the days after Christ's ascension, and before the day of Pentecost, whilst the disciples were waiting for the promise of the Spirit. The Ethiopic version reads, "on that day"; as if it was the same day they came first into Jerusalem, and went into the upper room; and which is likely enough; for no time was to be lost in choosing one in the room of Judas; when Peter, not only as a forward person, and who had been used to be the first mover and actor in any affair; but as willing to show his zeal for Christ, whom he had so lately denied, and as being the senior man in company, as well as the minister of the circumcision, rises, and stands up, as persons used to do, when about to make an oration, and in respect and reverence to the persons addressed:

in the midst of the disciples; not only the other ten, but the whole hundred and twenty. The Alexandrian copy, and some others, read, "in the midst of the brethren", and so reads the Vulgate Latin version; and the Ethiopic version, "in the midst of his own brethren";

and he said what is expressed in the following verses, which before the historian relates, he inserts in a parenthesis this clause,

the number of the names; that is, of persons; see Revelation 11:13. Some copies read, "of the men", and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions; who

together, all put together in one sum, or as meeting together in one and the same place, or as agreeing in the same faith and judgment, so the Arabic version, "and there was there a company whose names and wills agreed in this same opinion"; they were all in one place, and of the same mind; and the sum of them

were about an hundred and twenty; among whom were the eleven apostles, and seventy disciples, which made eighty one; so that there were thirty nine persons more in this company: not that it is to be thought that these were all that were in Jerusalem that believed in Christ; but these were the number of the persons that met and embodied together in a church state, and who not only gave themselves to the Lord, but to one another, by the will of God; and their names being taken and registered, the historian calls the account of them, the number of the names, and not persons; though he means persons. This was a number pretty famous among the Jews; the sanhedrim of Ezra, called the men of the great synagogue, consisted of an "hundred and twenty elders"; the last of which was Simeon the just, and he comprehended the hundred and twenty h. And such a number was requisite for a sanhedrim in any place; it is asked,

"how many must there be in a city, that it may be fit for a sanhedrim? "an hundred and twenty"; R. Nehemiah says two hundred and thirty i:''

but the decision is according to the former: hence they say k, that

"they fix in every city in Israel, where there is an "hundred and twenty", or more, a lesser sanhedrim.---A city in which there is not an hundred and twenty, they place three judges, for there is no sanhedrim less than three.''

h Juchasin, fol. 13. 2. Bartenora in Pirke Abot, c. 1. sect. 1. Elias Levit. prefat. 3. ad Sepher Masoret. i Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 6. Vid. Maimon. & Bartenora in. ib. & T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 17. 2. k Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 3, 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In those days - On one of the days intervening between the ascension of Jesus and the day of Pentecost.

Peter stood up - Peter standing up, or rising. This is a customary expression in the Scriptures when one begins to do a thing, Luke 15:18. The reason why Peter did this may be seen in the notes on Matthew 16:16-17. It is not improbable, besides, that Peter was the most aged of the apostles; and from his uniform conduct we know that he was the most ardent. It was perfectly characteristic, therefore, for him to introduce the business of the election of a new apostle.

The disciples - This was the name, which was given to them as being learners in the school of Christ. See the notes on Matthew 5:1.

The number of the names - The number of the persons, or individuals. The word “name” is often used to denote “the person,” Revelation 3:4; Acts 4:12; Acts 18:15; Ephesians 1:21. In Syriac it is, “The assembly of people was about an hundred and twenty.” This was the first assembly convened to transact the business of the church; and it is not a little remarkable that the vote in so important a matter as electing apostle was by the entire church. It settles the question that the election of a minister and pastor should be by the church, and that a pastor should not be placed over a church by a patron, or by an ecclesiastical body. If a case could ever occur where it would be right and proper that one should be selected to exercise the office of a minister of Christ by the ministry only, the election of one to fall the office of an apostle was such a case. And yet in this the entire church had a voice. Whether this was all the true church at this time does not appear from the history. This expression cannot mean that there were no more Christians, but that these were all that had convened in the upper room. It is certain that our Saviour had, by his own ministry, brought many others to be his true followers. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 1:15. In the midst of the disciples — μαθητων; but instead of this, αδελφων, brethren, is the reading of ABC, a few others, with the Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, and Vulgate. This seems the best reading, because of what immediately follows; for it was not among the disciples merely that he stood, but among the whole company, which amounted to one hundred and twenty. It is remarkable that this was the number which the Jews required to form a council in any city; and it is likely that in reference to this the disciples had gathered together, with themselves, the number of one hundred and twenty, chosen out of the many who had been already converted by the ministry of our Lord, the twelve disciples, and the seventy-two whom he had sent forth to preach, Luke 10:1, &c., thus they formed a complete council in presence of which the important business of electing a person in the place of Judas was to be transacted.