Acts 1:2

Luke summarizes events up to Jesus' ascension, noting He gave commands to His chosen apostles through the Holy Spirit. It stresses divine continuity from Jesus to His apostles.

Cross-references · 40

• Acts 1:9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
• Heb 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
• John 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• Isa 59:20–21“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
• John 13:18I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
• Eph 4:8–10Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• Matt 28:19–20Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Luke 24:45–49Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
• Isa 48:16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
• John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
• Acts 10:40–42God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Matt 10:1–4He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• 2 Pet 3:2that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
• Mark 3:14–19He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,
• Isa 11:2–3Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
• Luke 24:51While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
• Acts 1:11who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Heb 6:19–20This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
• Rev 3:16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
• 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
• Luke 9:51It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,
• Eph 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• Matt 12:28But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
• John 17:13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
• Rev 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
• Rev 2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
• Mark 6:30The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.
• John 6:62Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• Luke 6:13–16When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
• John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

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