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Acts 1:1-11 NIV
1 In my former book, Theophilus,
I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach
2 until the day he was taken up
to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the
apostles he had chosen.
3 After his suffering, he
showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he
was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke
about the kingdom of God.
4 On one occasion, while he was
eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave
Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have
heard me speak about.
5 For John baptized with water,
but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
6 So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at
this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or
dates the Father has set by his own authority.
8 But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth."
9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes,
and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
11 "Men of Galilee," 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 in the same way
you have seen him go into heaven." |
