Popular Bible Verses from Acts 1

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However, you will most certainly receive supernatural power and dynamic ability when the Holy Spirit descends upon you, and you shall become My witnesses—those who testify concerning Me—beginning in Jerusalem, then expanding throughout all the region of Judea, extending into Samaria, and ultimately reaching to the most remote and distant corners of the entire earth.”

He responded to them, saying, “The precise times and specific seasons are matters that the Father has fixed by His own sovereign authority, and it is not within your jurisdiction or privilege to possess knowledge of these appointed moments.

During one gathering when He had assembled them together, He issued a firm command that they were not to leave Jerusalem but rather to remain there and wait expectantly for the fulfillment of the Father’s promise, about which He reminded them, saying that they had heard this directly from His own lips previously, for John had administered baptism using water as the physical element, but they would experience baptism with the Holy Spirit as the divine agent, and this momentous event would occur within just a few days from that present moment.

to these same individuals He also demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that He was genuinely alive following His crucifixion and suffering, presenting Himself through numerous convincing proofs and making repeated appearances to them throughout a forty-day period and delivering teachings concerning the kingdom of God.

After He had completed these instructions, while they stood watching with their own eyes, He began to be lifted upward, and a cloud enveloped Him and received Him, removing Him completely from their sight.

As they continued gazing intently and fixedly upward into the sky during the time He was departing, suddenly, two men dressed in white garments appeared and stood beside them, and these messengers addressed them, saying, “Men of Galilee, why do you continue standing here looking upward into the sky in this manner? This same Jesus, who has been taken up and removed from your presence into heaven in the way you have just witnessed, will return in exactly the same manner as you observed Him ascending into heaven.”