These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 1
Brit Hadashah 26 verses
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My former narrative, Theophilus, dealt with all that did and taught as a beginning, down to the day on which,
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after giving instruction through the Holy to the Apostles whom He had chosen, He was taken up to Heaven.
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Acts 1:9 John 13:18 John 20:21 Acts 10:38 Mark 16:15-19 Acts 10:40-42 Acts 1:13 Revelation 3:13 Hebrews 9:24 Matthew 12:28 Ephesians 4:8-10 Luke 6:13-16 John 6:62 2 Peter 3:2 1 Timothy 3:16 Hebrews 6:19-20 Revelation 1:1 Isaiah 42:1 John 3:34 Revelation 3:16 Revelation 2:11 Isaiah 11:2-3 Luke 9:51 Ephesians 2:20 John 6:70 John 20:17 Mark 3:14-19 Matthew 28:19-20 Acts 1:11 Revelation 3:22 Luke 24:51 Revelation 2:7 Luke 24:45-49 Matthew 10:1-4 Revelation 21:14 Isaiah 59:20-21 Matthew 3:16 Isaiah 48:16 Mark 6:30 Galatians 1:1 Isaiah 61:1 John 1:16 John 13:1 John 17:13 Revelation 2:29 John 16:28 1 Peter 3:22 John 13:3 Revelation 2:17 -
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He had also, after He suffered, shown Himself alive to them with many sure proofs, appearing to them at intervals during forty days, and speaking of the Kingdom of .
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1 Corinthians 15:5-7 Acts 13:31 John 20:26 Matthew 3:2 Matthew 28:16-17 Matthew 28:9 Acts 28:31 Luke 24:1-53 John 21:14 Matthew 4:2 Luke 17:20-21 Deuteronomy 9:18 Mark 16:10-14 Deuteronomy 9:9 Matthew 21:43 Romans 14:17 1 Kings 19:8 John 20:1-21 Daniel 2:44-45 John 21:1 1 John 1:1 1 Thessalonians 2:12 Colossians 1:13 - 4 And while in their company He charged them not to leave , but to wait for the Father’s promised . “This you have heard of,” He said, “from me.
- 5 For indeed baptized with water, but before many days have passed you shall be baptized with the Holy .”
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Once when they were with Him, they asked Him, “Master, is this the time at which you are about to restore the of ?”
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Matthew 17:11 Matthew 24:3 Zephaniah 3:15-17 Genesis 49:10 Luke 19:11 John 21:21 Jeremiah 33:26 Ezekiel 37:24-27 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Amos 9:11 Isaiah 1:26 Jeremiah 33:15-17 Luke 17:20 Hosea 3:4 Micah 5:2 Luke 22:29 Mark 9:12 Daniel 7:27 Zechariah 9:9 Obadiah 1:17-21 Joel 3:16-21 Matthew 20:21 Isaiah 9:6-7 -
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“It is not for you,” He replied, “to times or epochs which the Father has reserved within His own authority;
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and yet you will receive power when the Holy has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in and in all Judaea and and to the remotest parts of the earth.”
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Acts 10:38-41 Acts 4:33 Mark 16:15 Romans 15:19 Matthew 28:19 Acts 2:1-4 Luke 24:46-49 Acts 5:32 Acts 6:8 Romans 10:18 Acts 1:5 John 15:27 Acts 2:32 Acts 8:5-25 Zechariah 4:6 Acts 3:15 Acts 8:1 Acts 1:22 Acts 13:31 Matthew 24:14 Acts 22:15 Luke 10:19 Luke 24:29 Isaiah 52:10 Colossians 1:23 Jeremiah 16:19 Micah 3:8 Luke 1:35 Psalm 22:27 Isaiah 66:19 Isaiah 42:10 Isaiah 49:6 Psalm 98:3 Revelation 11:3-6 - 9 When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight.
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But, while they stood intently gazing into the sky as He went, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,
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- 11 who said, “Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.”
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Then they returned to from the mountain called the Oliveyard, which is near , about a mile off.
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They entered the city, and they went up to the upper room which was now their fixed place for meeting. Their names were and , and Andrew, Philip and , Bartholomew and , the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of .
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Acts 20:8 Mark 2:14 Matthew 10:2-4 Luke 22:12 Mark 3:16-19 Mark 14:15 Acts 2:38 John 11:16 Acts 15:7-11 Matthew 4:18-22 2 John 1:1 Acts 3:1-10 Galatians 2:9 Acts 12:2-3 John 6:5-7 Matthew 9:9 John 20:26-29 Acts 10:9-33 John 14:8-9 Mark 14:33 John 12:21-22 Jude 1:1 Revelation 1:1-3 1 John 1:1-5 John 21:15-24 Acts 9:32-43 John 21:2 Luke 6:13-16 Acts 2:14 Acts 8:14-25 John 18:17 Acts 15:13 Mark 9:2 John 1:40-46 1 Corinthians 15:7 Acts 4:19 John 13:23-25 Galatians 1:19 James 1:1 Mark 5:37 John 18:25-27 Acts 4:13 Acts 12:17 Luke 5:27-29 -
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All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and the mother of , and His brothers.
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- 15 It was on one of these days that stood up in the midst of the brethren—the entire number of persons present being about 120—and said,
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“Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled—the prediction, I mean, which the Holy uttered by the lips of , about Judas, who acted as guide to those who arrested .
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Psalm 41:9 Psalm 55:12-15 John 13:18 John 12:38-40 Matthew 26:47 Hebrews 3:7-8 1 Peter 1:11 Acts 13:26-29 Acts 2:29-31 Acts 4:25-28 John 19:36 Acts 7:2 Acts 28:17 Acts 2:37 Acts 15:7 Acts 23:1 Acts 13:38 John 19:28-30 Matthew 26:56 Acts 23:6 Acts 22:1 John 18:2-8 Mark 12:36 Mark 14:43 2 Samuel 23:2 Acts 1:20 Matthew 26:54 Acts 13:15 Acts 28:25 John 10:35 Acts 2:23 Acts 15:13 2 Peter 2:21 Luke 22:47 - 17 For Judas was reckoned as one of our number, and a share in this ministry was allotted to him.”
- 18 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he became disembowelled.
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This fact became widely known to the people of , so that the place received the , in their language, of Achel-damach, which means ‘The Field of Blood.’)
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“For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “’Let his encampment be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there’; and “’His work let another take up.’
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“It is necessary, therefore, that of the men who have been with us all the time that the Lord went in and out among us—
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beginning from His by down to the day on which He was taken up again from us into Heaven—one should be appointed to become a witness with us as to His resurrection.”
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So two names were proposed, called Bar-sabbas—and surnamed Justus—and Matthias.
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And the brethren prayed, saying, “Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all, show clearly which of these two Thou hast chosen
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Then they drew lots between them. The lot fell on Matthias, and a place among the eleven Apostles was voted to him.
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