Acts 1:1-11

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

1In the first book, O aTheophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began bto do and teach, 2until the day when che was taken up, after he dhad given commands ethrough the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 fHe presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

4And while staying
Or eating
with them hhe ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
5for iJohn baptized with water, jbut you will be baptized kwith
Or in
the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”


The Ascension

6So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, mwill you at this time nrestore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them, o“It is not for you to know ptimes or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8But you will receive qpower rwhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and syou will be tmy witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and uSamaria, and vto the end of the earth.” 9And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, whe was lifted up, and xa cloud took him out of their sight. 10And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, ytwo zmen stood by them in aawhite robes, 11and said, abMen of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, acwill adcome in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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