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Acts 1 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:1 - In the first book, O The-oph'ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:2 - until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:3 - To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:4 - And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:5 - for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:6 - So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:7 - He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:8 - But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Sama'ria and to the end of the earth."

The Ascension

(Mar 16:19, 20; Luk 24:50–53 )
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:9 - And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 - And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:11 - and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

The Upper Room

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:12 - Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:13 - and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:14 - All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
(cf. Psa 109:8 )
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:15 - In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:16 - "Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:17 - For he was numbered among us, and was allotted his share in this ministry.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18 - (Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:19 - And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Akel'dama, that is, Field of Blood.)
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20 - For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it'; and 'His office let another take.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:21 - So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:22 - beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us--one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:23 - And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsab'bas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthi'as.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:24 - And they prayed and said, "Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou hast chosen
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:25 - to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place."
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:26 - And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthi'as; and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.
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