That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
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Gill's Exposition
That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship,.... Of the ministry of the apostles, or of the apostolical ministration; which lay in preaching the Gospel, administering ordinances, planting…
Barnes' Notes
That he may take part of this ministry - The word rendered “part” - κλῆρον klēron - is the same which in the next verse is rendered lots. It properly means a lot or portion the portion divided to a…
Adam Clarke
That he may take part of this ministry, etc. - Instead of τον κληρον, the lot, which we translate part, τον τοπον, the place, is the reading of ABC*, Coptic, Vulgate, and the Itala in the Codex Bezae,…
The sin of Judas was not only his shame and ruin, but it made a vacancy in the college of the apostles. They were ordained twelve, with an eye to the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve…
Cambridge Bible
that he may take part The best MSS. read that he may take the place, &c. The Rec. Texthas the same words here and in Act 1:1, as is represented in the A. V. A scribe remembering the former would…
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