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Summary
Acts 1:1 - 1:2 - 1:3 - 1:4 - 1:5 - 1:6 - 1:7 - 1:8 - 1:9 - 1:10 - 1:11 - 1:12 - 1:13 - 1:14

1:1. The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach,

1:2. until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom He had chosen, He was taken up.

1:3. To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the Kingdom of God.

1:4. Eating together with them, He commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should “wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard,” He said, “by my mouth.

1:5. “For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.”

1:6. They therefore who had come together, asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel?

1:7. But He said to them, “It is not for you to know the time or moments, which the Father has put in His own power:

1:8. “But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.”

1:9. When He had said these things, while they looked on, Jesus was raised up: and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

1:10. While they were watching Him going up to Heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments.

'''1:11. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to Heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so He come as you have seen Him going into Heaven.”'''

1:12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, within a Sabbath day's journey.

1:13. When they had come to Jerusalem, they went up into the cenacle, the upper room, where were staying Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude, the brother of James.

1:14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren.