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Acts 1:9

King James Version (KJV)

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Translations

Acts 1:9 - Amplified Bible

And when He had said this, even as they were looking [at Him], He was caught up, and a cloud received {and} carried Him away out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - American Standard Version

And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - Bible in Basic English

And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

Acts 1:9 - Darby Bible

And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - English Standard Version

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - King James Version

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - La Biblia de las Americas

Después de haber dicho estas cosas, fue elevado mientras ellos miraban, y una nube le recibiò y le ocultò de sus ojos.

Acts 1:9 - The Message

These were his last words. As they watched, he was taken up and disappeared in a cloud. They stood there, staring into the empty sky. Suddenly two men appeared—in white robes! They said, "You Galileans!—why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky? This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly—and mysteriously—as he left."

Acts 1:9 - New American Standard Bible

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.

Acts 1:9 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Después de haber dicho estas cosas, fue elevado mientras ellos miraban, y una nube Lo recibiò y Lo ocultò de sus ojos.

Acts 1:9 - World English Bible

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1:9 - Young's Living Translation

And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

Acts 1:9 - Additional Comments

These were Jesus very last words. If nothing else, this is what He would have them to remember. Here He said not to worry about the time of His return (make note of that! and don't try to predict it!), that they would soon have the power (from the Holy Spirit) to do His work, and that they are to tell others about Him throughout the earth. There were certainly other things He could have said about Himself, but that work was completed, and now they had work to do, to propagate the knowledge and faith of Him. (Part of His last words are mentioned in Matt 28:18-20, but they reiterate what He says here.)
This took place on the Mount of Olives (see verse 12), less than a mile east of Jerusalem.
The Mount of Olives (also Mount Olivet - see vs 12), sometimes Jebel et-Tur, "Mount of the Summit," or Jebel ez-Zeitun, "Mount of Olives") is a mountain ridge less than a mile east of Jerusalem. It is named from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed. At the foot of the mountain is the Gardens of Gethsemane where Jesus stayed in Jerusalem.
In the Book of Zechariah (Zech 14:4) the Mount of Olives is identified as the place from which God will begin to redeem the dead at the end of days. For this reason, Jews have always sought to be buried on the mountain, and from Biblical times to the present day the mountain has been used as a cemetery for the Jews of Jerusalem. There are an estimated 150,000 graves on the Mount, including the tomb of Zechariah (who prophesized there).
Major damage was suffered when the Mount was occupied by Jordan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, with Jordanians using the gravestones from the cemetery for construction of roads and toilets, including gravestones from millennia-old graves. When Israel took back the area, the Israelis painstakingly repatriated as many of the surviving gravestones as possible.
The Mount of Olives is also mentioned in connection with David's flight from Jerusalem through the rebellion of Absalom (2 Samuel 15:30). It is, however, frequently alluded to (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13; Nehemiah 8:15; Ezekiel 11:23).
It is frequently mentioned in the New Testament (Matthew 21:1;26:30, etc.). The road from Jerusalem to Bethany runs over the mount as it did in Biblical times. It was on this mount that Jesus stood when he wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41).
Jesus is said to have spent a good deal of time on the mount, teaching and prophesying to his disciples (Matthew 24-25), returning after each day to rest (Luke 21:37), and also coming there on the night of his betrayal (Matthew 26:39). This mount, or rather mountain range, has four summits or peaks: (1) the "Galilee" peak, so called from a tradition that the angels stood here when they spoke to the disciples (Acts 1:11); (2) the "Mount of Ascension," the supposed site of that event, which was, however, somewhere probably nearer Bethany (Luke 24:51, 52); (3) the "Prophets," from the catacombs on its side, called "the prophets' tombs;" and (4) the "Mount of Corruption," so called because of the "high places" erected there by Solomon for the idolatrous worship of his foreign wives (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13).
The Mount of Olives is also the site of the prophecy of Zechariah (Zechariah 14:4) and Ezekiel's theophany (Ezekiel 11).

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