The Ascension

⁹ After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

²² “Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.^{(A) 23} Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used^[a] lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.^{(B) 24} God raised him up, ending the pains of death,^(C) because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

⁵⁵ Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.^{(A) 56} He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” ^(B)

⁴ Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

⁵ “Who are you, Lord?” Saul said.

“I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting,” he replied.

²⁰ Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: “He is the Son of God.”^(A)