Acts 1:5-8

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⁵ “John baptized you with water,”^[a] he reminded them, “but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit in just a few days.”

⁶ And another time when he appeared to them, they asked him, “Lord, are you going to free Israel from Rome^[b] now and restore us as an independent nation?”

⁷ “The Father sets those dates,” he replied, “and they are not for you to know. ⁸ But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power to testify about me with great effect, to the people in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, about my death and resurrection.”