Acts:1:1-11

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* The former treatise have I made , O Theophilus , of all that Jesus began both to do and teach , * Until the day in which he was taken up , after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen : * To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs , being seen of them forty days , and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God : * And , being assembled together with them , commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem , but wait for the promise of the Father , which , saith he , ye have heard of me . * For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence . * When they therefore were come together , they asked of him , saying , Lord , wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel ? * And he said unto them , It is not for you to know the times or the seasons , which the Father hath put in his own power . * But ye shall receive power , after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem , and in all Judaea , and in Samaria , and unto the uttermost part of the earth . * And when he had spoken these things , while they beheld , he was taken up ; and a cloud received him out of their sight . * And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up , behold , two men stood by them in white apparel ; * Which also said , Ye men of Galilee , why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? this same Jesus , which is taken up from you into heaven , shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven .

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