<p>20:8 <i>And there were m<em>any lamps- </em></i>We note the public, open nature of their meeting. They were in accord with the Lord's teaching that we are lamps lit and visible to the world.</p><p><em>In the upper room where we were gathered together</em>- Luke is surely purposefully connecting with the disciples at the first breaking of bread in an upper room (Lk. 22:12), and then being in the upper room gathered together after the Lord's resurrection (Acts 1:13). The point is made that the gathering together in breaking of bread, at any distance in time or space from those early gatherings, is a continuation of them in essence. The same point is made by Luke's preference in Acts for describing the believers as &quot;the disciples&quot;, as if their and our walk in Christ is a continuation of the way the early disciples followed Him in person around the streets and lanes of first century Palestine.</p>