Acts 1:9-14

International Standard Version

Jesus Goes Up to Heaven

⁹ After saying this, Jesus^[a] was taken up while those who had gathered together^[b] were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. ¹⁰ While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them. ¹¹ They asked, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven.”

A New Apostle Takes the Place of Judas

¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives,^[c] which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.^{[d] 13} When they came into the city, these men^[e] went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son^[f] of James. ¹⁴ With one mind, all of them kept devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women (including Mary the mother of Jesus) and his brothers.