Acts 1:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

The day

Through

Revelation 3:16

Given

Matthew 28:19

Mark 16:15

Luke 24:45

The apostles

Bible References

The day

As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight.

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took his seat at God's right hand.

As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

And as he was blessing them, he parted from them.

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

I did come from the Father and enter the world. Now I am leaving the world again and going back to the Father."

But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts.

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

So it says, "When he went up on high, he led a host of captives, And gave gifts to mankind."

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

This hope is like an anchor for our souls. It reaches up secure and strong into the sanctuary behind the heavenly curtain,

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.

Through

about Jesus of Nazareth, and how God endowed him with the power of the holy Spirit, and he went about doing good and curing all who were in the power of the devil, because God was with him.

And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him,

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

As it is, since you are tepid and neither cold nor hot, I am going to spit you out of my mouth!

Given

Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,

And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

Then he opened their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures,

The apostles

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen,

Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."

I do not mean all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but let the Scripture be fulfilled: " 'He who is eating my bread Has raised his heel against me.'

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father sent me forth so I now send you."

Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;

You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.

to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.