MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE: THE HEAVEN
The Acts of the Apostles
1:1The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that
Jesus
began both to do and to teach, 1:2until the day in which he was
received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy
Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 1:3To whom he also
showed
himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them
by
the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the
kingdom of God: 1:4and, being assembled together with them, he
charged
them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the
Father, which, said he, ye heard from me: 1:5For John indeed baptized
with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days
hence. 1:6They therefore, when they were come together, asked him,
saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
1:7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons,
which the Father hath set within His own authority. 1:8But ye shall
receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be
my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth. 1:9And when he had said these
things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received
him out of their sight. 1:10And while they were looking stedfastly
into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white
apparel; 1:11who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking
into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven
shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.
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