ACTS
1:1-11
1
The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both
to do and to teach, 2 until the day in which He was received up, after that He
had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom He had chosen: 3 to whom He also showed Himself
alive after His passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days and speaking the things concerning the
kingdom of God: 4 and, being assembled together with them, He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the
promise of the Father, which, said He, ye have heard from Me: 5 for John indeed
baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
6
They therefore, when they were come together, asked Him, saying, Lord, dost
thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? 7 And He said unto them, It is
not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own
authority. 8 But ye
shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my
witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth. 9 And
when He had said these things, as they were looking, He was taken up; and a
cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And while they were looking
stedfastly in to heaven as He went, behold, two men stood by them in white
apparel; 11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven?
This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as ye beheld Him going into heaven.
