Acts 1:6-11

The Ascension

6So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, awill you at this time brestore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them, c“It is not for you to know dtimes or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8But you will receive epower fwhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and gyou will be hmy witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and iSamaria, and jto the end of the earth.” 9And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, khe was lifted up, and la cloud took him out of their sight. 10And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, mtwo nmen stood by them in owhite robes, 11and said, pMen of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, qwill rcome in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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