Acts 1:2
Good News Translation
until the day he was taken up to heaven. Before he was taken up, he gave instructions by the power of the Holy Spirit to the men he had chosen as his apostles.

New Revised Standard Version
until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Contemporary English Version
until he was taken up to heaven. But before he was taken up, he gave orders to the apostles he had chosen with the help of the Holy Spirit.

New American Bible
until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.

the day.

Acts 1:9 And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Mark 16:19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God.

Luke 9:51 And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from them and was carried up to heaven.

John 6:62 If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John 13:1,3 Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end. . . .

John 16:28 I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.

John 17:13 And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

John 20:17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.

Ephesians 4:8-10 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he gave gifts to men. . . .

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Hebrews 6:19,20 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil: . . .

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

1 Peter 3:22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

through.

Acts 10:38 Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Isaiah 11:2,3 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. . . .

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 48:16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Isaiah 59:20,21 And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Matthew 3:16 And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.

Matthew 12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

John 1:16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

Revelation 2:7,11,17,29 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God. . . .

Revelation 3:16,13,22 But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. . . .

given.

Matthew 28:19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Mark 16:15-19 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. . . .

Luke 24:45-49 Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. . . .

the apostles.

Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James.

Acts 10:40-42 Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest, . . .

Matthew 10:1-4 And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities. . . .

Mark 3:14-19 And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might send them to preach. . . .

Luke 6:13-16 And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples: and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles): . . .

John 6:70 Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you is a devil.

John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up his heel against me,

John 20:21 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.

Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead:

Ephesians 2:20 Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

2 Peter 3:2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,

Context
Prologue
1The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, 2Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. 3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.…
Cross References
Matthew 28:19
Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Mark 6:30
And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all things that they had done and taught.

Mark 16:15
And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Mark 16:19
And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God.

John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

John 13:18
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up his heel against me,

John 20:21
He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.

Acts 1:9
And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1:11
Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him going into heaven.

Acts 1:22
Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his resurrection.

Acts 10:41
Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the dead.

Acts 10:42
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead.

Acts 1:1
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