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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Acts 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/21.htm" title="John 21">◄</a> Acts 1 <a href="../acts/2.htm" title="Acts 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.1" class="v44_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Dear Theophilus:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_1">In my first book I wrote about all the things that Jesus did and taught from the time he began his work </span><span class="v44_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.2" class="v44_1_2">2</span>until the day he was taken up to heaven. Before he was taken up, he gave instructions by the power of the Holy Spirit to the men he had chosen as his apostles. </span><span class="v44_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.3" class="v44_1_3">3</span>For forty days after his death he appeared to them many times in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. They saw him, and he talked with them about the Kingdom of God. </span><span class="v44_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.4" class="v44_1_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And when they came together,<a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.4!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> he gave them this order: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift I told you about, the gift my Father promised. </span><span class="v44_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.5" class="v44_1_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Is Taken Up to Heaven</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.6" class="v44_1_6">6</span>When the apostles met together with Jesus, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.7" class="v44_1_7">7</span>Jesus said to them, “The times and occasions are set by my Father's own authority, and it is not for you to know when they will be. </span><span class="v44_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.8" class="v44_1_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” </span><span class="v44_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.9" class="v44_1_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> After saying this, he was taken up to heaven as they watched him, and a cloud hid him from their sight.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.10" class="v44_1_10">10</span>They still had their eyes fixed on the sky as he went away, when two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them </span><span class="v44_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.11" class="v44_1_11">11</span>and said, “Galileans, why are you standing there looking up at the sky? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you saw him go to heaven.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Judas' Successor</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.12" class="v44_1_12">12</span>Then the apostles went back to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is about half a mile away from the city. </span><span class="v44_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.13" class="v44_1_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> They entered the city and went up to the room where they were staying: Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Patriot, and Judas son of James. </span><span class="v44_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.14" class="v44_1_14">14</span>They gathered frequently to pray as a group, together with the women and with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.15" class="v44_1_15">15</span>A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about a hundred and twenty in all, and Peter stood up to speak. </span><span class="v44_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.16" class="v44_1_16">16</span>“My friends,” he said, “the scripture had to come true in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, made a prediction about Judas, who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus. </span><span class="v44_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.17" class="v44_1_17">17</span>Judas was a member of our group, for he had been chosen to have a part in our work.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_17">( </span><span class="v44_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.18" class="v44_1_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> With the money that Judas got for his evil act he bought a field, where he fell to his death; he burst open and all his insides spilled out. </span><span class="v44_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.19" class="v44_1_19">19</span>All the people living in Jerusalem heard about it, and so in their own language they call that field Akeldama, which means “Field of Blood.”)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.20" class="v44_1_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “For it is written in the book of Psalms,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_1_20">‘May his house become empty;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_1_20">may no one live in it.’</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v44_1_20">It is also written,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_1_20">‘May someone else take his place of service.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_21"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.21-Acts.1.22" class="v44_1_21">21-22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.21-Acts.1.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism<a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.1.21-Acts.1.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_1_23"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.23" class="v44_1_23">23</span>So they proposed two men: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas (also known as Justus), and Matthias. </span><span class="v44_1_24"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.24" class="v44_1_24">24</span>Then they prayed, “Lord, you know the thoughts of everyone, so show us which of these two you have chosen </span><span class="v44_1_25"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.25" class="v44_1_25">25</span>to serve as an apostle in the place of Judas, who left to go to the place where he belongs.” </span><span class="v44_1_26"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.1.26" class="v44_1_26">26</span>Then they drew lots to choose between the two men, and the one chosen was Matthias, who was added to the group of eleven apostles.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.4: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">when they came together; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">while he was staying with them, </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">while he was eating with them.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.21-22: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">John preached his message of baptism; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">John baptized him.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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