⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”^g

THE ASCENSION

⁹After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. ¹⁰While he was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.^h ¹¹They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen him going into heaven.”ⁱ

UNITED IN PRAYER

¹²Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem—a Sabbath day’s journey away. ¹³When they arrived, they went to the room^j upstairs where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.^k ¹⁴They all were continually united^l in prayer,^B along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.^m

MATTHIAS CHOSEN

¹⁵In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters^C—the number of people who were together was about a hundred twenty—and said, ¹⁶“Brothers and sisters, it was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David foretold about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.ⁿ

Read in Logos

Acts 1:8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Footnotes

BOther add and petition
COther read disciples

Cross references

g Lk 24:48; Ac 2:1,4; 4:33; 8:1,14; 13:47
h Mt 28:13; Mk 16:5; Lk 24:4; Jn 20:12
i Mt 16:27; Ac 2:7; 1Th 1:10; 2Th 1:10
j Ac 9:37,39; 20:8
k Mt 10:2–4; Mk 3:16–19; Lk 6:14–16
l Ac 2:46; 4:24; 5:12; 15:25; Rm 15:6
m Mt 12:46; Lk 23:49,55; Rm 12:12; Col 4:2
n Lk 22:37,47; 24:44; Jn 13:18; 18:3