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11 They asked, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven.”

A New Apostle Takes the Place of Judas

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives,[a] which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.[b] 13 When they came into the city, these men[c] went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son[d] of James.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:12 Lit. from the mountain called Olives
  2. Acts 1:12 I.e. about a half mile away
  3. Acts 1:13 The Gk. lacks men
  4. Acts 1:13 Or brother