Acts 1:1-16

Goodspeed^{(i) 1} In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning ² until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven. ³ He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God. ⁴ And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said, ⁵ "for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit." ⁶ So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?" ⁷ He said to them, "It is not for you to know times and dates which the Father has fixed by his own authority, ⁸ but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth." ⁹ As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight. ¹⁰ And while they were gazing after him into the sky, two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them, ¹¹ and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven." ¹² Then they went back to Jerusalem from the hill called the Olive-orchard, which is near Jerusalem, half a mile away. ¹³ When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James. ¹⁴ They were all devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers. ¹⁵ It was at that time that Peter got up among the brothers—there were about a hundred and twenty persons present—and said, ¹⁶ "Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus—