The macroscopic behavior of the contact line during the spontaneous spreading of a droplet can be described in terms of microscopic quantities, specifically the substrate-liquid and liquid-liquid interactions.Here, for the first time, the results of mol. dynamics simulations of very large sessile drop systems are compared with the predictions of the mol.-kinetic theory of wetting.Good agreement is obtained, with both approaches yielding a consistent set of mol. parameters and macroscopic behavior which is consistent with experiments