Acts 1:3

New English Translation

To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Matthew 21:43

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Matthew 28:9

But Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.

Matthew 3:2

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Matthew 4:2

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

Mark 16:19

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

John 20:26

Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

John 21:1

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

John 21:14

This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Acts 13:31

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

Acts 19:8

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

Acts 28:23

They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

Acts 28:31

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

Acts 8:12

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Colossians 1:13

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

1 Thessalonians 2:12

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

1 John 1:1

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life –