When did Peter stand up among the disciples and how many people were gathered?
During the ten-day interval between Christ’s Ascension and the coming down of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples gathered in Jerusalem. The number of the names together was about 120.
Les explains that after the Lord ascended from the Mount of Olives, the disciples returned to Jerusalem and were congregating in an upper room. He notes it must have been a rather large facility because at least 120 people were meeting there, and he wonders whether that number was just the men, with women and others besides. In this ten-day interval between the Ascension and Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit would come down, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples—these believers and followers of Christ as their Messiah. Verse 15 says, “in those days,” and the number of the names together was about 120. Verse 13 lists all eleven apostles there, plus other men, and likely women and children.
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
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How many believers were gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection?
By the end of Christ's three-year ministry, after His crucifixion and resurrection, the believers who gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem numbered about 120 names, and Les thinks that was all there were in the Jerusalem area (though not necessarily all in northern Israel).