Passage · New Testament
Acts 1:9-11
Acts.1.9-Acts.1.11
Explore this passage in the graph9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Read this passage at the publisher: Read in NIV · Read in ESV
Connections that cite this passage
Acts 1:9-11 echoes Daniel 7:13-14
Strong allusion or echoMedium confidenceJesus is taken up in a cloud and promised to return the same way; Daniel saw one like a son of man coming with the clouds to receive an everlasting kingdom. The link is widely noted but Acts does not quote Daniel.
Other responsible views
- Coming to the Ancient of Days: In Daniel the figure comes with clouds to the Ancient of Days, which some read as enthronement rather than return to earth; Jesus applies the clouds image to His own coming before the council (Matt 26:64), and Acts pictures both going and return with a cloud.
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