Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 1:11

"who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven." — Acts 1:11 (ASV)

Luke describes the disciples as “looking intently up [a favorite word of Luke] into the sky as he was going.” They were soon challenged by a double message from two angels “dressed in white.” (1) The Jesus whom the disciples had known now had a heavenly existence (cf. the double use of the phrase “into heaven”). (2) The same Jesus they had known would return also enveloped in the cloud of the divine presence and glory (cf. Matthew 24:30; 26:64; Mark 13:26; Mark 14:62).