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Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
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Verse 6–7. Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? Some of them, as Saint John Chrysostom observes, had still their thoughts upon a temporal kingdom of the Messias. Christ, to divert them from such imaginations, tells them, their business is to be witnesses of his doctrine and miracles, particularly of his resurrection, even unto the utmost bounds of the earth, to all the nations of the world. Witham.
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