Acts 1:1-7 ▼

1 The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

2 until the day when He was taken up [to heaven], after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen.

3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over [a period of] forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, |Which,| [He said], |you heard of from Me;

5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.|

6 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, |Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?|

7 He said to them, |It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;