Acts 1:8

New English Translation

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

Cross References

Psalm 22:27

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

Psalm 98:3

He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the Lord a brand new song! Praise him from the horizon of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there!

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

Isaiah 66:19

I will perform a mighty act among them and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, Lud (known for its archers), Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.

Jeremiah 16:19

Then I said, “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods – worthless idols that could not help them at all.

Micah 3:8

But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

Zechariah 4:6

Therefore he told me, “These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord who rules over all.”

Matthew 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 28:19

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Mark 16:15

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Luke 1:35

The angel replied, “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 holy; he will be called the Son of God.

Luke 10:19

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Luke 24:29

but they urged him, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.

John 15:27

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

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 1:5

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

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 2:32

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

Acts 22:15

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

Acts 4:33

With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 6:8

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

Acts 8:1

And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

Romans 10:18

But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Romans 15:19

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.