11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven? This Jesus which is taken up [a]from you into heaven, shall so come, as ye have seen him go into heaven.

12 ¶ Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount that is called the mount of Olives, which is near to Jerusalem, being from it a Sabbath [b]day’s journey.

13 [c]And when they were [d]come in, they went up into an upper chamber, where abode both Peter and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zealot, and Judas James’s brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:11 That is, out of your sight.
  2. Acts 1:12 About two miles.
  3. Acts 1:13 Ecclesiastical assemblies to hear the word, and to make common prayer, were first instituted and kept in private houses by the Apostles.
  4. Acts 1:13 They went into the house, which the Church hath chosen at that time to be a receipt for the whole assembly.

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