There are two things we know about this group.
1. They were faithful followers.
2. They were made up of men and women.
These are two important facts that we need to remember as we get into Acts Chapter Two (2). We need to remember because there is teaching out there that declares the 120 received the Holy Spirit baptism and they (120) could speak in tongues and do healing. I want you to know that if you ignore the facts then you are allowing yourself to be led by a false doctrine.
Since they are faithful followers they being Jews would have been at the temple for prayer at 9 in the morning. A believing Jew would not be drunk in the temple on the day of Pentecost or at prayer time. So the faithful would have been in the upper rooms surrounding the temple. But here is the thing that we need to understanding the women in this 120 would have been in the woman part of the temple so that takes away from the 120. We don't know how many women were in this 120. But what we can say is 120 did not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit which debunks the teaching of this religion.
A... The 120 was made up of men and women. Since they were in the Jewish temple they would have been obeying the rules of the temple. The temple was divided into three areas for worship the Jewish men, the Jewish women, and the gentiles. So we can eliminate the women and gentiles being in this area. Luke was a gentile.
B... That would leave us with just the twelve apostles, Jesus' brothers, Lazarus, Barsabass, Luke, the two men on the road to Emmaus, and the other men of how many we don't know. We can eliminate Luke as he was a gentile who had become a disciple.
C... The evidence narrows this list down even more. Look ahead at verse seven we are told that all who were speaking where Galileans and scripture tells us in John 12:21 talks about Philip, John 21:2 indicates Peter, Thomas, Nathanael were all Galilean. There we have four of the twelve apostles being reveal to us. But the evidence takes us even further as we look at the verses in Acts.
D... This was a letter written and was not divided into chapters as we see it in our bibles. We go back to chapter 1:3 "to the apostles whom He had chosen" and he gave them a message that is recorded in verse five "But you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit" If he is speaking to the apostles then it eliminates all the other men. We know that he spoke only to the twelve by considering the antecedent of any pronoun is generally found by referring back to the nearest noun with which it agrees of people, places, numbers, gender and gives us the proof that the twelve are the ones who were together.
Acts 2: Verse 14: As we look at the beginning of this verse we can understand that only the 12 received the Holy Spirit gift of speaking in tongues. Had all the men or the one hundred and twenty received these gifts also they would have been mention here with Peter. We have Peter's sermon recorded for us even though the others were preaching also. The reason we have this sermon only is this is the one that the Holy Spirit inspired Luke to write. Remember Luke; is a gentile and would not been in this area and thus never heard this message. "Men of Judea" are the men living in the land and those "living in Jerusalem" are those who had come to visit.
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