Acts 1:1-7 ▼

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

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

3 to whom He also presented Himself alive, after He suffered, by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

4 And, being assembled together with them , He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which said He , "Ye heard from Me;

5 because John, indeed, immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence."

6 They, therefore, having come together, were asking Him, saying, "Lord, dost Thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?"

7 He said to them, "It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father placed in His own authority;