Acts 1:21

New Century Version

“So now a man must become a witness with us of Jesus’ being raised from the dead. He must be one of the men who were part of our group during all the time the Lord Jesus was among us—from the time John was baptizing people until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:2

Even when Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel in battle. The Lord said to you, ‘You will be a shepherd for my people Israel. You will be their leader.’ ”

1 Kings 3:7

Lord my God, now you have made me, your servant, king in my father’s place. But I am like a little child; I don’t know how to do what must be done.

Numbers 27:17

who will go in and out before them. He must lead them out like sheep and bring them in; the Lord’s people must not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Luke 1:2

They have written the same things that we learned from others—the people who saw those things from the beginning and served God by telling people his message.

Luke 24:3

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

John 15:27

and you also must tell people about me, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Deuteronomy 31:2

“I am now one hundred twenty years old, and I cannot lead you anymore. The Lord told me I would not cross the Jordan River;