Acts 1:2

New English Translation

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Cross References

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.

Isaiah 48:16

Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there.” So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

Matthew 12:28

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

Matthew 3:16

After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

Mark 6:30

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

Luke 24:51

Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.

Luke 9:51

Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.

John 1:16

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

John 13:1

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

John 13:18

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

John 13:3

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

John 16:28

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

John 17:13

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

John 20:17

Jesus replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

John 20:21

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

John 3:34

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

John 6:62

Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

John 6:70

Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

Acts 1:11

and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”

Acts 1:13

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

Acts 1:22

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

Acts 1:9

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

Acts 10:38

with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

Galatians 1:1

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

Ephesians 2:20

because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

1 Timothy 3:16

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

1 Peter 3:22

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

2 Peter 3:2

I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Revelation 1:1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John,

Revelation 2:11

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’

Revelation 2:17

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

Revelation 2:29

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Revelation 2:7

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 3:13

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Revelation 3:16

So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth!

Revelation 3:22

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”