11 who also said, “Men of Galilee,[a] why do you stand there looking[b] into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain that is called Olive Grove[c] which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.[d] 13 And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying—Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas son of James.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:11 Literally “Galileans”
  2. Acts 1:11 Some manuscripts have “gazing”
  3. Acts 1:12 This is a variation of the name “Mount of Olives”
  4. Acts 1:12 Literally “having a journey of a Sabbath”