Acts 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Cross References

Psalm 22:27

The poor will eat their fill; those who seek the Lord will offer praise. May your hearts enjoy life forever!”

Psalm 98:3

He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth: Let the sea and what fills it resound, the coastlands, and those who dwell in them.

Isaiah 49:6

It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth can see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 66:19

I will place a sign among them; from them I will send survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands which have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, with justice and with might; To declare to Jacob his crimes and to Israel his sins.

Zechariah 4:6

Then he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come. The Great Tribulation.

Matthew 28:19

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,

Mark 16:15

He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.

Luke 1:35

And the angel said to her in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

Luke 10:19

Behold, I have given you the power ‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.

Luke 24:29

But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

John 15:27

And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

Acts 1:5

for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.” The Ascension of Jesus.

Acts 13:31

and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are [now] his witnesses before the people.

Acts 2:32

God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses.

Acts 22:15

for you will be his witness before all to what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.

Acts 4:33

With great power the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great favor was accorded them all.

Acts 5:32

We are witnesses of these things, as is the holy Spirit that God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 6:8

Now Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 8:1

Now Saul was consenting to his execution. Persecution of the Church. On that day, there broke out a severe persecution of the church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 10:18

But I ask, did they not hear? Certainly they did; for “Their voice has gone forth to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit [of God], so that from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum I have finished preaching the gospel of Christ.

Colossians 1:23

provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister. Christ in Us.