Acts 1:1-7 ▼

1 THE first book have I written, O Theoph’i- lus, concerning all the things which our Lord Jesus Christ began to do and teach

2 Until the day when he ascended after he, through the Holy Spirit, had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen;

3 The very ones to whom he had also shown himself alive, after he had suffered, with many wonders during the forty days, while appearing to them and talking with them concerning the kingdom of God:

4 And as he ate bread with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, the one of whom you have heard from me.

5 For John baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

6 While they were assembled, they asked him, saying, Our LORD, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

7 He said to them, It is not for you to know the time or times, which the Father has put under his own authority.