in teaching (present, the whole course of his work, both activities continuing together); “until what day he was received up” (aorist) records the end. So we dismiss the emphasis on “began” as though this beginning might be of special importance; and also the deduction that Luke implies that what Jesus began the apostles were to continue and to conclude. No; what Jesus began and also continued reached its end the day he ascended. Nor should one overlook the fact that Luke gives a decided emphasis