Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven, etc.—"as if your now glorified Head were gone from you never to return: He is coming again; not another, but 'this same Jesus'; and 'as ye have seen Him go, in the like manner shall He come'—as personally, as visibly, as gloriously; and let the joyful expectation of this coming swallow up the sorrow of that departure."
while they beheld, he was taken up—See on Luke 24:50-53. Lest it should be thought He had disappeared when they were looking in some other direction, and so was only concluded to have gone up to heaven, it is here expressly said that "while they were looking He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight." So Elijah, "If thou see me when I am taken from thee" (II Kings 2:10); "And Elisha saw it" (Acts 1:12). (See on Luke 9:32.)
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 1:11:
Song of Solomon 3:7
Daniel 7:13
Joel 3:2
Zechariah 14:4
Luke 24:52
Acts 1:1-2
1 Thessalonians 4:16
1 Timothy 3:16
Hebrews 12:14
Hebrews 13:8
Revelation 1:7
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