ASCENSION-DAY
Acts 1:6-14
So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time
going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them: "It is not
for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own
authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on
you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." After he said this, he was
taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when
suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee,"
they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same
Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the
same way you have seen him go into heaven." Then they returned to
Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day' s
walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room
where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and
Andrew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son
of James. They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with
the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
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