10 And as they were staring into the sky while[a] he was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood by them 11 who also said, “Men of Galilee,[b] why do you stand there looking[c] into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain that is called Olive Grove[d] which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:10 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was departing”)
  2. Acts 1:11 Literally “Galileans”
  3. Acts 1:11 Some manuscripts have “gazing”
  4. Acts 1:12 This is a variation of the name “Mount of Olives”
  5. Acts 1:12 Literally “having a journey of a Sabbath”