Note 1 at Acts 1:12: This "sabbath day's journey" refers to the distance that the scribes and Pharisees had decided was permissible to walk on a Sabbath day. They had interpreted Exodus 16:29 as meaning that travel on the Sabbath day was restricted. Therefore, they had calculated the exact number of steps which a good Jew could walk and it became an unit of measure equal to a little less than one of our miles.