Acts 1:11 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 1:11

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.

KJV

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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Commentary

5 voices

Tertullian

On Baptism (220)

After that, Pentecost is a most joyous space for conferring baptisms; wherein, too, the resurrection of the Lord was repeatedly proved among the disciples, and the hope of the advent of the Lord indirectly pointed to, in that, at that time, when He had been received back into the heavens, the angels told the apostles that "He would so come, as He had withal ascended into the heavens; " at Pentecost, of course.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN (420)

[Daniel 7:13-14] "And behold, there came One with the clouds of heaven like unto the Son of man."

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye men of Galilee - Galilee was the place of their former residence, and they were commonly known by the name of Galileans. Why stand ye ... - There is doubtless a slight degree of censure implied in this, as well as a design to call their attention away from a vain attempt to see the departed Saviour. The impropriety may have been: (1) In the feeling of disappointment, as if he would not restore the kingdom to Israel.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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);

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Original language & word study

31 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἳ	hoi	who	G3739 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
εἶπαν·	eipan	said;	G2036 →
ἄνδρες	andres	Men	G435 →
Γαλιλαῖοι,	Galilaioi	Galileans,	G1057 →
τί	ti	why	G5101 →
ἑστήκατε	hestēkate	have you stood	G2476 →
ἐμβλέποντες	emblepontes	looking	G1689 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανόν;	ouranon	heaven?	G3772 →
οὗτος	houtos	This	G3778 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ἀναλημφθεὶς	analēmphtheis	having been taken up	G353 →
ἀφ᾽	aph᾽	from	G575 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	you	G4771 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανὸν	ouranon	heaven	G3772 →
οὕτως	houtōs	thus	G3779 →
ἐλεύσεται	eleusetai	will come	G2064 →
ὃν	hon	in that	G3739 →
τρόπον	tropon	manner	G5158 →
ἐθεάσασθε	etheasasthe	you beheld	G2300 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
πορευόμενον	poreuomenon	going	G4198 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανόν.¶	ouranon	heaven.	G3772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
leads to
- Revelation 1:7
  Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51–52
  Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
- Matthew 24:30–31
  At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds…
Through
Revelation 1:7
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
leads to
- Daniel 7:13
  In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 24:30
  At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds…
- Zechariah 12:10
  Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They…
- Mark 14:62
  “I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
Through
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…