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The Ascension of Jesus. When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going[a] to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 The question of the disciples implies that in believing Jesus to be the Christ (see note on Lk 2:11) they had expected him to be a political leader who would restore self-rule to Israel during his historical ministry. When this had not taken place, they ask if it is to take place at this time, the period of the church.

Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore(A) the kingdom to Israel?”

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