Acts 1:2

New Century Version

until the day he was taken up into heaven. Before this, with the help of the Holy Spirit, Jesus told the apostles he had chosen what they should do.

Cross References

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is my servant, the one I support. He is the one I chose, and I am pleased with him. I have put my Spirit upon him, and he will bring justice to all nations.

Isaiah 48:16

Come to me and listen to this. From the beginning I have spoken openly. From the time it began, I was there.” Now, the Lord God has sent me with his Spirit.

Isaiah 61:1

The Lord God has put his Spirit in me, because the Lord has appointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort those whose hearts are broken, to tell the captives they are free, and to tell the prisoners they are released.

Matthew 12:28

But if I use the power of God’s Spirit to force out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

Matthew 3:16

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up out of the water. Then heaven opened, and he saw God’s Spirit coming down on him like a dove.

Mark 6:30

The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him about all the things they had done and taught.

Luke 24:51

While he was blessing them, he was separated from them and carried into heaven.

Luke 9:51

When the time was coming near for Jesus to depart, he was determined to go to Jerusalem.

John 1:16

Because he was full of grace and truth, from him we all received one gift after another.

John 13:1

It was almost time for the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that it was time for him to leave this world and go back to the Father. He had always loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them all the way to the end.

John 13:18

“I am not talking about all of you. I know those I have chosen. But this is to bring about what the Scripture said: ‘The man who ate at my table has turned against me.’

John 13:3

Jesus knew that the Father had given him power over everything and that he had come from God and was going back to God.

John 16:28

I came from the Father into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

John 17:13

“I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world so that these followers can have all of my joy in them.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold on to me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

John 20:21

Then Jesus said again, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, I now send you.”

John 3:34

The One whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God gives him the Spirit fully.

John 6:62

Then will it also bother you to see the Son of Man going back to the place where he came from?

John 6:70

Then Jesus answered, “I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a devil.”

Acts 1:11

They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking into the sky? Jesus, whom you saw taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go.”

Acts 1:13

When they entered the city, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon (known as the Zealot), and Judas son of James were there.

Acts 1:9

After he said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

Acts 10:38

You know about Jesus from Nazareth, that God gave him the Holy Spirit and power. You know how Jesus went everywhere doing good and healing those who were ruled by the devil, because God was with him.

Galatians 1:1

From Paul, an apostle. I was not chosen to be an apostle by human beings, nor was I sent from human beings. I was made an apostle through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.

Ephesians 2:20

You are like a building that was built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the most important stone in that building,

1 Timothy 3:16

Without doubt, the secret of our life of worship is great: He was shown to us in a human body, proved right in spirit, and seen by angels. He was proclaimed to the nations, believed in by the world, and taken up in glory.

Hebrews 9:24

Christ did not go into the Most Holy Place made by humans, which is only a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself and is there now before God to help us.

1 Peter 3:22

Now Jesus has gone into heaven and is at God’s right side ruling over angels, authorities, and powers.

2 Peter 3:2

I want you to think about the words the holy prophets spoke in the past, and remember the command our Lord and Savior gave us through your apostles.

Revelation 1:1

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show his servants what must soon happen. And Jesus sent his angel to show it to his servant John,

Revelation 2:11

“Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. Those who win the victory will not be hurt by the second death.

Revelation 2:17

“Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. “I will give some of the hidden manna to everyone who wins the victory. I will also give to each one who wins the victory a white stone with a new name written on it. No one knows this new name except the one who receives it.

Revelation 2:29

Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelation 2:7

“Every person who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life, which is in the garden of God.

Revelation 21:14

The walls of the city were built on twelve foundation stones, and on the stones were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 3:13

Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelation 3:16

But because you are lukewarm—neither hot, nor cold—I am ready to spit you out of my mouth.

Revelation 3:22

Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.”