You are witnesses of all these things.
Parallel translations
- WEB You are witnesses of these things.
- KJV And ye are witnesses of these things.
- BSB You are witnesses of these things.
- NKJV And you are witnesses of these things.
- NASB You are witnesses of these things.
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Quick answer
Jesus tells the disciples they are witnesses of these things. They are commissioned to testify to his death, resurrection, and saving message.
Overview
Having explained his death, resurrection, and the mission to the nations, Jesus names the disciples as witnesses. Their eyewitness testimony will form the foundation of the church's proclamation, as seen throughout Acts. The verse establishes the authoritative, firsthand basis of the gospel message entrusted to the apostles.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Acts 5:32We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
- Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
- Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- Acts 13:31and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
- Acts 10:41not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
- Acts 10:39We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Acts 1:22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
- 1 Pet 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
- Acts 4:33With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
- John 15:27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
- Acts 22:15For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
- 1 Jn 1:2–3(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
- Heb 2:3–4how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
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