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The Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 1 they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud
received him out of their sight.
The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all 10 And while they were beholding him going
things which Jesus began to do and to teach, up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in
2 Until the day on which, giving command- white garments.
ments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom 11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why
he had chosen, he was taken up. stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come,
his passion, by many proofs, for forty days ap- as you have seen him going into heaven.
pearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from
of God. the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh
4 And eating together with them, he com- Jerusalem, within a sabbath day’s journey.
manded them, that they should not depart from 13 And when they were come in, they went
Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of up into an upper room, where abode Peter and
the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,
my mouth. Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus,
5 For John indeed baptized with water, but and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of
you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not James.
many days hence. 14 All these were persevering with one mind
6 They therefore who were come together, in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother
asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time of Jesus, and with his brethren.
restore again the kingdom to Israel? 15 In those days Peter rising up in the midst of
7 But he said to them: It is not for you to the brethren, said: (now the number of persons
know the times or moments, which the Father together was about an hundred and twenty:)
hath put in his own power: 16 Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be
8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by
Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be wit- the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was
nesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:
and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of 17 Who was numbered with us, and had ob-
the earth. tained part of this ministry.
9 And when he had said these things, while 18 And he indeed hath possessed a field of