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and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/nkjv/acts/1.htm">New King James Version</a> Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. <a href="/nasb_/acts/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were watching, and a cloud took Him up, out of their sight. <a href="/nasb/acts/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. <a href="/nasb77/acts/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. <a href="/lsb/acts/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. <a href="/amp/acts/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> And after He said these things, He was caught up as they looked on, and a cloud took Him up out of their sight. <a href="/csb/acts/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. <a href="/hcsb/acts/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took Him out of their sight. <a href="/asv/acts/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/cev/acts/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> After Jesus had said this and while they were watching, he was taken up into a cloud. They could not see him, <a href="/erv/acts/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/gwt/acts/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> After he had said this, he was taken to heaven. A cloud hid him so that they could no longer see him. <a href="/gnt/acts/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> After saying this, he was taken up to heaven as they watched him, and a cloud hid him from their sight. <a href="/isv/acts/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. <a href="/msb/acts/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. <a href="/net/acts/1.htm">NET Bible</a> After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. <a href="/nheb/acts/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. <a href="/wbt/acts/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/wey/acts/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight. <a href="/web/acts/1.htm">World English Bible</a> When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/acts/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And having said these things—they beholding—He was taken up, and a cloud received Him up from their sight; <a href="/blb/acts/1.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And having said these things, they beholding, He was lifted up, and a cloud hid Him from their eyes. <a href="/ylt/acts/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight; <a href="/slt/acts/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And having said these, they beholding, he was lifted up; and a cloud received him from their eyes.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/acts/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/cpdv/acts/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And when he had said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. <a href="/nabre/acts/1.htm">New American Bible</a> When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. <a href="/nrsvce/acts/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/acts/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And when he had spoken these things, he ascended while they were looking at him; a cloud received him and he was hidden from their sight. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/acts/1.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And when he had said these things, as they saw him, he was taken up and a cloud received him and he was hidden from their eyes.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/acts/1.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> And when he had spoken these things, while they were looking on him, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/godbey/acts/1.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> And having spoken these words, they looking, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him from their eyes. <a href="/haweis/acts/1.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> And as he was speaking these things, while they were looking upon him, he was taken up; and a cloud enveloping him hid him from their eyes. <a href="/mace/acts/1.htm">Mace New Testament</a> After this discourse, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. <a href="/wey/acts/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight. <a href="/worrell/acts/1.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> And, having said these things, while they were beholding, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him from their sight. <a href="/worsley/acts/1.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> And having said these things, as they were looking upon Him, He was lifted up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. <a href="/parallel/acts/1-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/in5WTRQ9BSQ?start=77" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/acts/1.htm">The Ascension</a> …8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9<a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: Kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">After</a> <a href="/greek/2036.htm" title="2036: eipōn (V-APA-NMS) -- Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.">He had said</a> <a href="/greek/3778.htm" title="3778: tauta (DPro-ANP) -- This; he, she, it. ">this,</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autōn (PPro-GM3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">they</a> <a href="/greek/991.htm" title="991: blepontōn (V-PPA-GMP) -- (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at.">watched as</a> <a href="/greek/1869.htm" title="1869: epērthē (V-AIP-3S) -- To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up.">He was taken up,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3507.htm" title="3507: nephelē (N-NFS) -- A cloud. From nephos; properly, cloudiness, i.e. a cloud.">a cloud</a> <a href="/greek/5274.htm" title="5274: hypelaben (V-AIA-3S) -- (a) I take up, (b) I welcome, entertain, (c) I answer, (d) I suppose, imagine. ">hid</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: auton (PPro-AM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">Him</a> <a href="/greek/575.htm" title="575: apo (Prep) -- From, away from. A primary particle; off, i.e. Away, in various senses.">from</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autōn (PPro-GM3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">their</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tōn (Art-GMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3788.htm" title="3788: ophthalmōn (N-GMP) -- The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy.">sight.</a> 10They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/luke/24-51.htm">Luke 24:51</a> While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven. <a href="/mark/16-19.htm">Mark 16:19</a> After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. <a href="/john/6-62.htm">John 6:62</a> Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before? <a href="/john/3-13.htm">John 3:13</a> No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man. <a href="/daniel/7-13.htm">Daniel 7:13</a> In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. <a href="/matthew/24-30.htm">Matthew 24:30</a> At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. <a href="/revelation/1-7.htm">Revelation 1:7</a> Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen. <a href="/ephesians/4-8.htm">Ephesians 4:8-10</a> This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.” / What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth? / He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things. <a href="/hebrews/4-14.htm">Hebrews 4:14</a> Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. <a href="/1_timothy/3-16.htm">1 Timothy 3:16</a> By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory. <a href="/psalms/68-18.htm">Psalm 68:18</a> You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there. <a href="/john/14-2.htm">John 14:2-3</a> In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? / And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. <a href="/matthew/26-64.htm">Matthew 26:64</a> “You have said it yourself,” Jesus answered. “But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:16-17</a> For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. / After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. <a href="/zechariah/14-4.htm">Zechariah 14:4</a> On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.when.<a href="/acts/1-2.htm">Acts 1:2</a> Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:<a href="/psalms/68-18.htm">Psalm 68:18</a> Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.<a href="/mark/16-19.htm">Mark 16:19</a> So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.a cloud.<a href="/exodus/19-9.htm">Exodus 19:9</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.<a href="/exodus/34-5.htm">Exodus 34:5</a> And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.<a href="/isaiah/19-1.htm">Isaiah 19:1</a> The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/11-45.htm">Beheld</a> <a href="/john/12-45.htm">Beholding</a> <a href="/john/8-23.htm">Beneath</a> <a href="/john/20-15.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/psalms/77-4.htm">Closing</a> <a href="/luke/21-27.htm">Cloud</a> <a href="/john/17-1.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/john/12-36.htm">Hid</a> <a href="/john/19-29.htm">Lifted</a> <a href="/acts/1-8.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/acts/1-2.htm">Received</a> <a href="/john/9-18.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/luke/24-50.htm">View</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/acts/1-11.htm">Beheld</a> <a href="/acts/4-14.htm">Beholding</a> <a href="/acts/2-19.htm">Beneath</a> <a href="/acts/3-2.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-36.htm">Closing</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">Cloud</a> <a href="/acts/2-25.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-3.htm">Hid</a> <a href="/acts/2-14.htm">Lifted</a> <a href="/acts/1-17.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/acts/1-11.htm">Received</a> <a href="/acts/4-19.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/acts/2-38.htm">View</a><div class="vheading2">Acts 1</div>1. <a href="/acts/1-1.htm">Christ, preparing his apostles to the beholding of his ascension, .</a> 4. <a href="/acts/1-4.htm">gathers them together unto the Mount of Olives, </a> 6. <a href="/acts/1-6.htm">commands them to expect in Jerusalem the sending down of the Holy Spirit, </a> 9. <a href="/acts/1-9.htm">and ascends into heaven in their sight</a> 10. <a href="/acts/1-10.htm">After his ascension they are warned by two angels to depart, and to set their minds upon his second coming.</a> 12. <a href="/acts/1-12.htm">They accordingly return, and, giving themselves to prayer, </a> 23. <a href="/acts/1-23.htm">choose Matthias apostle in the place of Judas.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/acts/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/acts/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/acts/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>After He had said this This phrase refers to the final words of Jesus to His disciples before His ascension. These words are recorded in <a href="/acts/1-8.htm">Acts 1:8</a>, where Jesus commissions His followers to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. This command sets the stage for the spread of the Gospel and the establishment of the early Church. It emphasizes the importance of the Great Commission and the role of the Holy Spirit in empowering believers.they watched The disciples were eyewitnesses to the ascension, which underscores the historical reality of the event. This act of watching signifies their role as witnesses, a theme that is central to the Book of Acts. The presence of multiple witnesses adds credibility to the account, as Jewish law required two or three witnesses to establish a matter (<a href="/deuteronomy/19-15.htm">Deuteronomy 19:15</a>).as He was taken up The ascension of Jesus is a pivotal moment in Christian theology, marking the conclusion of His earthly ministry and His exaltation to the right hand of the Father. This event fulfills the prophecy of <a href="/psalms/110.htm">Psalm 110:1</a>, where the Messiah is invited to sit at God's right hand. The ascension also signifies Jesus' victory over sin and death and His authority over all creation.and a cloud hid Him from their sight The cloud is a significant biblical symbol, often representing the presence and glory of God. In the Old Testament, a cloud led the Israelites in the wilderness (<a href="/exodus/13-21.htm">Exodus 13:21</a>) and filled the temple with God's glory (<a href="/1_kings/8-10.htm">1 Kings 8:10-11</a>). The cloud at the ascension connects Jesus to these divine manifestations, indicating His divine nature and the approval of the Father. This imagery also points to the promise of His return, as described in <a href="/daniel/7-13.htm">Daniel 7:13</a> and reiterated by the angels in <a href="/acts/1-11.htm">Acts 1:11</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> The central figure in this passage, Jesus is the one who is taken up into heaven. His ascension marks the completion of His earthly ministry and the beginning of His heavenly reign. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_disciples.htm">The Disciples</a> The followers of Jesus who witnessed His ascension. They are left with the promise of the Holy Spirit and the mission to be His witnesses. 3. <a href="/topical/m/mount_of_olives.htm">Mount of Olives</a> The location from which Jesus ascended into heaven. This place holds significant biblical history and prophecy. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_cloud.htm">The Cloud</a> Symbolic of God's presence, the cloud that hides Jesus from sight is reminiscent of the Shekinah glory that filled the temple and led the Israelites in the wilderness. 5. <a href="/topical/h/heaven.htm">Heaven</a> The destination of Jesus' ascension, representing His return to the Father and His exaltation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_significance_of_the_ascension.htm">The Significance of the Ascension</a> Jesus' ascension is not just a departure but an exaltation. It signifies His victory over sin and death and His enthronement as King. <a href="/topical/t/the_promise_of_the_holy_spirit.htm">The Promise of the Holy Spirit</a> The ascension sets the stage for the coming of the Holy Spirit, empowering believers to fulfill the Great Commission. <a href="/topical/l/living_with_an_eternal_perspective.htm">Living with an Eternal Perspective</a> Just as the disciples were left gazing into heaven, we are called to live with our eyes fixed on Jesus, anticipating His return. <a href="/topical/t/the_cloud_of_witnesses.htm">The Cloud of Witnesses</a> The cloud that received Jesus is a reminder of the great cloud of witnesses that surrounds us, encouraging us to run the race with perseverance. <a href="/topical/o/our_role_as_witnesses.htm">Our Role as Witnesses</a> The ascension challenges us to be active witnesses of Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension, sharing the gospel with the world.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) He was taken up; and a cloud received him . . .--It is remarkable how little stress is laid in the Gospels on the fact which has always been so prominent in the creeds of Christendom. Neither St. John nor St. Matthew record it. It is barely mentioned with utmost brevity in the verses which close the Gospel of St. Mark, and in which many critics see, indeed, a fragment of apostolic teaching, but not part of the original Gospel. The reasons of this silence are, however, not far to seek. It was because the Ascension was from the first part of the creed of Christendom that the Evangelists said so little. The fact had been taught to every catechumen. They would not embellish it--as, for example, the Assumption of the Virgin was embellished in later legends--by fantastic details. That it was so received is clear. It is implied in our Lord's language, as recorded by St. John, "What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before?" (<a href="/john/6-62.htm" title="What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?">John 6:62</a>), and such words would hardly have been brought before believers at the close of the apostolic age if they had received no fulfilment. It is assumed in the earliest form of the Church's creed, "He was received up into glory," the verb being identical with that which St. Luke employs in St. Peter's speeches (<a href="/acts/2-33.htm" title="Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.">Acts 2:33</a>; <a href="/acts/3-21.htm" title="Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.">Acts 3:21</a>), and in St. Paul's epistles (<a href="/ephesians/1-20.htm" title="Which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,">Ephesians 1:20</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/3-16.htm" title="And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.">1Timothy 3:16</a>). We may add that there was something like a moral necessity, assuming the Resurrection as a fact, for such a conclusion to our Lord's work on earth. Two other alternatives may, perhaps, be just imagined as possible: He might, like Lazarus, have lived out His restored life to its appointed term, and then died the common death of all men; but in that case where would have been the victory over death, and the witness that He was the Son of Man? He might have lived on an endless life on earth; but in this case, being such as He was, conflict, persecution, and suffering would have come again and again at every stage, and in each instance a miracle would have been needed to save the suffering from passing on to death, or many deaths must have been followed by many resurrections. When we seek, however, to realise the process of the Ascension, we find ourselves in a region of thought in which it is not easy to move freely. With our thoughts of the relations of the earth to space and the surrounding orbs, we find it hard to follow that upward motion, and to ask what was its direction and where it terminated. We cannot get beyond the cloud; but that cloud was the token of the glory of the Eternal Presence, as the Shechinah that of old filled the Temple (<a href="/context/1_kings/8-10.htm" title="And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,">1Kings 8:10-11</a>; <a href="/context/isaiah/6-1.htm" title="In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.">Isaiah 6:1-4</a>), and it is enough for us to know that where God is there also is Christ, in the glory of the Father, retaining still, though under new conditions and laws, the human nature which made Him like unto His brethren. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - Said for spoken, A.V.; as they were looking for while they beheld, A.V. They were to be αὐτόπται, eye-witnesses, of the Lord's ascension, arid so it is particularly noted that he was taken as they were looking. He did not disappear from their sight till he reached the cloud which enveloped him. <a href="/commentaries/acts/1-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>[After] Καὶ (Kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. He had said εἰπὼν (eipōn) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2036.htm">Strong's 2036: </a> Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say. this, ταῦτα (tauta) Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3778.htm">Strong's 3778: </a> This; he, she, it. they αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. watched as βλεπόντων (blepontōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_991.htm">Strong's 991: </a> (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at. He was taken up, ἐπήρθη (epērthē) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1869.htm">Strong's 1869: </a> To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. a cloud νεφέλη (nephelē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3507.htm">Strong's 3507: </a> A cloud. From nephos; properly, cloudiness, i.e. a cloud. hid ὑπέλαβεν (hypelaben) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5274.htm">Strong's 5274: </a> (a) I take up, (b) I welcome, entertain, (c) I answer, (d) I suppose, imagine. Him αὐτὸν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. from ἀπὸ (apo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_575.htm">Strong's 575: </a> From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses. their αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. sight. ὀφθαλμῶν (ophthalmōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3788.htm">Strong's 3788: </a> The eye; fig: the mind's eye. 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