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The Promise of the Holy Spirit
In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do
and teach
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until the day he was
taken up to heaven
after giving his chosen apostles
further instructions
through the Holy Spirit.
During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles
from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually
alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.
4 Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave
Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.
5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the
Holy Spirit.”
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The Ascension of Jesus
6 So when the apostles were with J
esus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time
come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?”
7 He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times,
and they are not for you to know.
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receive power
Holy Spirit comes upon you.
But you will
when the
And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem,
throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and
they could no longer see him. 10 As they strained to see him rising into heaven,
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