Acts 1:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

So we need someone else to help us tell others that Jesus has been raised from death. He must also be one of the men who was with us from the very beginning. He must have been with us from the time the Lord Jesus was baptized by John until the day he was taken to heaven.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:2

Even when Saul was king, you led our nation in battle. And the LORD promised that some day you would rule Israel and take care of us like a shepherd.”

1 Kings 3:7

LORD God, I'm your servant, and you've made me king in my father's place. But I'm very young and know so little about being a leader.

Numbers 27:17

Your people need someone to lead them into battle, or else they will be like sheep wandering around without a shepherd.”

Luke 1:2

They wrote what we had been told by the ones who were there in the beginning and saw what happened.

Luke 24:3

they went in. But they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus,

John 15:27

Then you will also tell others about me, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Deuteronomy 31:2

I am a hundred and twenty years old, and I am no longer able to be your leader. And besides that, the LORD your God has told me that he won't let me cross the River Jordan.