Is The Gift of Tongues For Today?

[Mr. Smith]

Originally Posted by Socialite

Touchy, touchy...

It just seems a little loaded (and suspicious) of any scholar to suggest the same group, in the same scene, just a few paragraphs later, the same room and scene are now a different cast because the text indicates Matthias was now "numbered" among the disciples.

Touchy, whatever.

So state your reasons for your opinion rather than your suspicions.

Acts 1:14 says they met continually. We can conclude from this that there wasn't one meeting, there were many.

Acts 1:15 says that Peter stood up and spoke on a day there were 120 present. We can conclude from this that 120 people in attendance were exclusive to that day.

There is clearly a space of time that takes place between 1:26 and 2:1 and chapter division or no chapter division, there is nothing to indicate that those same 120 people were present.

In Acts 2, Peter stood up with the eleven, not the 119. There is no evidence vague or otherwise, that indicates that 120 people were present in Acts 2.