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10 The apostles were still looking carefully up into the sky when suddenly two men appeared.[a] They were wearing white clothes and they stood near the apostles.

11 The men said to the apostles, ‘You men from Galilee, you should not still be standing here and looking up into the sky. God has taken Jesus into heaven. You saw the way that Jesus went up to heaven. One day, he himself will return in the same way.’

The apostles choose Matthias

12 Then the apostles left the Mount of Olives.[b] They returned to Jerusalem. This was a walk of about 1 kilometre.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10 We think that these men were angels.
  2. 1:12 All this happened on the east side of the Mount of Olives. This hill is between Jerusalem and the town of Bethany. Olive trees grow there.