Where is Acts 1:9–11 found?

Acts 1:9–11 (New Testament). Translation quoted: King James Version (1611; standard 1769 text), with Apocrypha.

Taken up in a cloud

ReferenceActs 1:9–11

Writtenc. 80–90 CE

Setc. 30 CE

A cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel… this same Jesus… shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Translation: KJV

Read it literally

A departure into a cloud, two attendants in white left behind, and a promise to return the same way.

What scholars say

The ascension.

Taken up alive From the sky

People and places hereJesus of Nazareth

Taken up in a cloud

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