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until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
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While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them.
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They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
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And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
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Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem.
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And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
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For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
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who must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets.
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There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.”
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When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and everything in them,
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But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
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But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
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“Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
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Now as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
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He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.
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This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven.
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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet coming down from heaven, being lowered by its four corners; and it came close to me.
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But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’
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This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven.
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“Friends, why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
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yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”
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The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,
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But when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Citizens of Ephesus, who is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?
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Paul Tells of His Conversion
“While I was on my way and approaching Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me.
