Acts 1:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

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  • Num 27:17 : 17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.
  • Deut 31:2 : 2 Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.
  • John 15:27 : 27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
  • 2 Sam 5:2 : 2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.
  • 1 Kgs 3:7 : 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
  • Luke 10:1-2 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come. 2 And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.
  • John 10:1-9 : 1 Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw. 2 He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep. 3 The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out. 4 When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice. 5 They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them. 6 In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them. 7 So Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them. 9 I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

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    22Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

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  • Acts 1:9-17
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    9And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

    10And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing,

    11And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

    12Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

    13And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

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    15And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,

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  • Acts 1:2-4
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    2Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

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    31And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

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    28And he was with them, going in and out at Jerusalem,

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    14And they were talking together about all those things which had taken place.

    15And while they were talking and questioning together, Jesus himself came near and went with them.

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    41Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

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    13Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.

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    33And that very hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem, where the eleven and the others had come together.

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    15And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

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    28And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

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    1As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,

    2As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

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    20For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

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    5But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

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    26Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    36And Simon and those who were with him came after him.

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    27And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

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    22And certain women among us gave us cause for wonder, for they went early to the place where his body had been put,

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    2Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.

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    28But you are those who have kept with me through my troubles;

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    18And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

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    25To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

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    14But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.

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    14And he took twelve to be with him, so that he might send them out as preachers,

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    6We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses.

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    7And there were about twelve of these men.

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    11And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

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    19And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:

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    29But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.