Acts 1:1-14 ▼

1 The first account, indeed, I made concerning all the things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

2 until the day in which, having given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He chose, He was taken up,

3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, with many convincing proofs, being seen by them through forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.

4 And being assembled together, He instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father: “That which you? heard of Me;

5 for John indeed baptized with water, but you? will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days after these.”

6 Therefore indeed those having come together were asking Him, saying, “Lord, at this time do You restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 And He said to them, “It is not yours? to know times or seasons that the Father set by His own authority.

8 But you? will receive power at the Holy Spirit having come upon you?, and you? will be My witnesses, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

9 And having said these things, in their looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him from their eyes.

10 And as they were looking intently into heaven in His going, then behold, two men in white apparel stood by them,

11 who also said, “Men, Galileans, why do you? stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, having been taken up from you? into heaven, will thus come in that manner you? saw Him going into heaven.”

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, holding a Sabbath’s journey.

13 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, both Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

14 All these were steadfastly continuing with one accord in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.