Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 1:8

8 But ye shall receive power after that the holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Not till then, not of their own strength, but of Gods grace, as appeared by Peter's denying, and the others leaving of our Saviour,

and that I am indeed the promised Messiah: my Doctrine, Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension, which ye shall testifie to all the World by your Preaching, and holy living, working miracles.

P[illegible: 1 letter]aces where your testimony shall be most opposed. These words are both a command, to tell the Apostles what they ought to do, and a prediction of what they should be enabled to do.

Marginal references: Chap. 2.1, 4.; Or, The power of the holy Ghost coming upon you.; Luke 24.48. John 15.27. Chap. 2.32.