⁷He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.ⁿ ⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;^o and you will be my witnesses^p in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,^q and to the ends of the earth.”^r

⁹After he said this, he was taken up^s before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^t stood beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,”^u they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^v in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

¹²Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem^w from the hill called the Mount of Olives,^x a Sabbath day’s walk^c from the city. ¹³When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room^y where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.^z ¹⁴They all joined together constantly in prayer,^a along with the women^b and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.^c

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

cThat is, about 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer

Cross references

m Mt 17:11; Ac 3:21
n Dt 29:29; Ps 102:13; Mt 24:36
o Ac 2:1–4
pSee Lk 24:48
q Ac 8:1–25
rSee Mt 28:19
sver 2; See Mk 16:19
tSee Jn 20:12
u Ac 2:7
vSee Mt 16:27
w Lk 24:52
xSee Mt 21:1
y Ac 9:37; 20:8
z Mt 10:2–4; Mk 3:16–19; Lk 6:14–16
a Ac 2:42; 4:24; 6:4; See Lk 18:1; See Ro 1:10
b Lk 23:49, 55
cSee Mt 12:46