From Nave’s Topical Bible
Sabbath Day' S Journey
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 1Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- About two-thousand pacesActs 1:12
The passages, in Bible order (1)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Acts 1:12
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
Commentary on Acts 1:122 voices
One mile, which was the distance of the Sabbath's journey, as Origen says in the fifth Homily, was two thousand cubits. And moreover the holy tent and the ark occupied this same space before the encampment, and from that distance they encamped. The distance permitted …
Oecumenius· Commentary on Acts, 550Patristic
A Sabbath days journey - See the difficulties in this verse explained in the note on Luk 24:50 (note). A Sabbath days journey was seven furlongs and a half. Olivet was but five furlongs from Jerusalem; and Bethany was fifteen. The first region or tract of Mount Olivet, which was called Bethany, was distant from the city a Sabbath days journey, or seven furlongs and a half; and the same distance did that tract called Bethphage extend from the city.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical