Acts 1:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

While he was with them, he declared,“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

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  • Luke 24:49 : 49 And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
  • John 14:16 : 16 Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever–
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
  • John 15:26 : 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,
  • John 16:7-9 : 7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment– 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. 12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And after he said this, he breathed on them and said,“Receive the Holy Spirit.
  • John 14:26-28 : 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you. 27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage. 28 You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
  • John 7:39 : 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
  • Matt 10:20 : 20 For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
  • Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
  • Luke 24:41-43 : 41 And while they still could not believe it(because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them,“Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 So they gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in front of them.
  • Acts 10:41 : 41 not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

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  • Acts 1:5-13
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    5For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

    6So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him,“Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

    7He told them,“You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

    8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

    9After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

    10As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

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

    12A Replacement for Judas is Chosen Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives(which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).

    13When they had entered Jerusalem, they went 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 were there.

  • Luke 24:48-51
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    48You are witnesses of these things.

    49And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

    50Jesus’ Departure Then Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.

    51Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.

  • Acts 1:2-3
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    2until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

    3To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

  • John 14:25-26
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    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

    26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

  • Acts 10:48
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    48So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

  • Acts 2:33
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    33So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

  • Acts 2:14
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    14Peter’s Address on the Day of Pentecost But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them:“You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.

  • Acts 13:31
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    31and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

  • Acts 1:21-22
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    21Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

    22beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us– one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

  • Acts 14:28
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    28So they spent considerable time with the disciples.

  • Acts 11:16
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    16And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

  • Acts 22:15
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    15because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

  • Mark 16:19-20
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    19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

    20They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]

  • Mark 16:7
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    7But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you.”

  • Acts 8:15
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    15These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 2:38
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    38Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 16:8
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    8But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

  • Acts 15:4
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    4When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.

  • John 14:16
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    16Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever–

  • Mark 1:8
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    8I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

  • Acts 2:4
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    4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

  • Acts 3:20
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    20so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you– that is, Jesus.

  • John 14:18
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    18“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

  • Acts 19:2
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    2and said to them,“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied,“No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

  • Acts 4:31
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    31When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

  • John 20:22
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    22And after he said this, he breathed on them and said,“Receive the Holy Spirit.

  • Luke 24:36
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    36Jesus Makes a Final Appearance While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them,“Peace be with you.”

  • Luke 24:33
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    33So they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those with them gathered together

  • John 16:4
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    4But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

  • John 15:26-27
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    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

    27and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  • Mark 16:15
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    15He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

  • Acts 10:37
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    37you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

  • Matt 28:10
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    10Then Jesus said to them,“Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”