And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
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Gill's Exposition
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven,.... For though he was taken out of their sight by the cloud, they kept looking upwards, and after him, if they could see him again, or any more of him:…
Barnes' Notes
Looked stedfastly - They fixed their eyes, or gazed intently toward heaven. Luk 4:20, “and the eyes of all them in the synagogue were fastened (Greek: the same word as here) on him.” It denotes the…
Adam Clarke
Looked steadfastly - Keeping their eyes intensely fixed on their ascending Lord; continuing to look even after he had ascended above the region of the inferior clouds.
Two men stood by them -…
In Jerusalem Christ, by his angel, had appointed his disciples to meet him in Galilee; there he appointed them to meet him in Jerusalem again, such a day. Thus he would try their obedience, and it was…
Cambridge Bible
as he went up The preposition is not in the Greek, which has simply, as he went.
in white apparel They are called men, but they are evidently angels. So the two angels are clothed in white (Joh 20:12)…
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