At the very moment when the disciples were overwhelmed with grief and despair, there came a cry through the darkness of the gloom that surrounded them: He is risen! He is risen! Jesus lives!

It was true. He was present with them. They remembered how he had told them that he would be crucified and that in three days he would rise again. The women who had been so dedicated to him, the rambunctious Peter, the beloved John, the skeptical Thomas, and all the disciples knew that Jesus was alive. He was real to them now, just as he had ever been. What lay ahead, they were not sure. How they were to serve this master had not yet been made plain to them. They knew in time it would be. But now, right now, it was enough to know that their master was with them. Their joy knew no bounds. They needed only to wait for further directions. This they did in a spirit of prayer and expectancy. The second chapter of the book of Acts records what happened to this little group of Christians when, fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection, they were together in an attitude of prayer.

- Alexander Campbell, The Covenant Story of the Bible, Eden Publishing, 1963

This is another Alexander Campbell than the one who immediately springs to mind. But notice how well he captures those wonderful days following the resurrection. And take particular note of “what happened” to those early disciples when “they were together in an attitude of prayer.”