Acts 1:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ Jesus replied, “You are not permitted to know the [specific] time or date [when this will happen]. For the Father has appointed it [to happen] when He determines [the right time].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He said to them, It is not for you to become acquainted with and know what time brings [the things and events of time and their definite periods] or fixed years and seasons (their critical niche in time), which the Father has appointed (fixed and reserved) by His own choice and authority and personal power.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within his own authority.

Common English Bible

⁷ Jesus replied, “It isn’t for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ But he said to them: "It is not yours to know the times or the moments, which the Father has set by his own authority.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

Acts 1:7 Cross References

Matthew 20:23

He said to them, “Indeed you will drink my cup [of suffering]. But it is not my prerogative to appoint who sits at my right side and at my left, but rather these places are for those to whom it has been assigned by my Father.”

Matthew 24:36

“But no one knows when that day or hour will come. Not even the angels in heaven or the Son [of God] know [when it will happen], but only the Father [does].

Mark 10:40

But it is not my prerogative to appoint who sits at my right side and at my left, but [those places] are for people to whom it has been assigned [by the Father].”

Mark 13:32

But no one knows when that day or that hour will come; not even the angels in heaven or the Son of God know, but only the Father does.

Luke 21:24

And people will die by the sword and be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the [unconverted] Gentiles [i.e., by the Romans and later by others] until the times of [domination by] the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Acts 17:26

He made every race of people living throughout the earth from one [family] and determined when [they would rise in history] and where they would live.

Ephesians 1:10

[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ’s headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.

1 Timothy 6:15

which God will bring about in its [or, “His”] own time. [For] He is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.

2 Timothy 3:1

But you should know this: There will be terrible times in the last days [of the Christian age].