Acts 1:4

World English Bible (2000)

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

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  • Luke 24:49 : 49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."
  • John 14:16 : 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
  • John 15:26 : 26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
  • John 16:7-9 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; 9 about sin, because they don't believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more; 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now. 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. 15 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
  • John 20:22 : 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
  • John 14:26-28 : 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. 28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
  • John 7:39 : 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
  • Matt 10:20 : 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
  • Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."
  • Luke 24:41-43 : 41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 He took them, and ate in front of them.
  • Acts 10:41 : 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

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

    6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

    7 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

    8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."

    9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

    10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,

    11 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."

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

    13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

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

    49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

    50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

    51 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

  • Acts 1:2-3
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    2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

    3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.

  • John 14:25-26
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    25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

    26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

  • Acts 10:48
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    48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

  • Acts 2:33
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    33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

  • Acts 2:14
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    14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

  • Acts 13:31
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    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.

  • Acts 1:21-22
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    21 "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

    22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."

  • Acts 14:28
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    28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

  • Acts 11:16
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    16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Acts 22:15
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    15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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

    20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

  • Mark 16:7
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    7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

  • Acts 8:15
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    15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

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

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

  • Acts 15:4
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    4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

  • John 14:16
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    16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--

  • Mark 1:8
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    8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

  • Acts 2:4
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    4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

  • Acts 3:20
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    20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

  • John 14:18
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    18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

  • Acts 19:2
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    2 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

  • Acts 4:31
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    31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

  • John 20:22
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    22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

  • Luke 24:36
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    36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

  • Luke 24:33
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    33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

  • John 16:4
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    4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

  • John 15:26-27
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    26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

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

  • Mark 16:15
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    15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  • Acts 10:37
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    37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

  • Matt 28:10
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    10 Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me."