Acts 1:9 KJV — MannaFest

Acts 1:9

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

YLT

And these things having said--they beholding--he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

DBT

And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Luke 24:50–51
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Mark 16:19
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

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With a general idea of the embryo of the Christian church, and its state from Christ's ascension to the pouring out of the Spirit,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

By the clouds there is a sort of communication kept up between the upper and lower world; in them the vapours are sent up from the earth, and the dews sent down from heaven. Fitly therefore does he ascend in a cloud who is the Mediator between God and man, by whom God's mercies come down upon us and our prayers come up to him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Lest it should be thought He had disappeared when they were looking in some other direction, and so was only concluded to have gone up to heaven, it is here expressly said that "while they were looking He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight." So Elijah, "If thou see me when I am taken from thee" (2Ki 2:10);

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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