Acts 1:11

World English Bible (2000)

who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."

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  • Acts 2:7 : 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?
  • Rev 1:7 : 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
  • Acts 13:31 : 31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
  • 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
  • Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
  • John 14:3 : 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
  • Dan 7:13-14 : 13 I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
  • Luke 21:27 : 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Matt 24:30 : 30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
  • Matt 25:31 : 31 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
  • Mark 13:26 : 26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
  • Mark 14:70 : 70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
  • Luke 24:5 : 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
  • Acts 3:12 : 12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

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