^1:2until the day he was taken up to heaven,⁵ after he had given orders⁶ by⁷ the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. ^1:3To the same apostles⁸ also, after his suffering,⁹ he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period¹⁰ and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

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Footnotes

5 The words “to heaven” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied from v. 11. Several modern translations (, ) supply the words “to heaven” after “taken up” to specify the destination explicitly mentioned later in 1:11.
6 Or “commands.” Although some modern translations render ἐντειλάμενος (enteilamenos) as “instructions” (, ), the word implies authority or official sanction (G. Schrenk, 2:545), so that a word like “orders” conveys the idea more effectively. The action of the temporal participle is antecedent (prior) to the action of the verb it modifies (“taken up”).
7 Or “through.”
8 Grk “to them”; the referent (the apostles) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 After his suffering is a reference to Jesus’ crucifixion and the abuse which preceded it.
10 Grk “during forty days.” The phrase “over a forty-day period” is used rather than “during forty days” because (as the other NT accounts of Jesus’ appearances make clear) Jesus was not continually visible to the apostles during the forty days, but appeared to them on various occasions.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

until the day he was taken up, after he had given instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After he had suffered, he also presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

NLTNew Living Translation

until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

until the day he was taken up, after he had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

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