Acts 1:6-14

English Standard Version

The Ascension

⁶ So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, ^(A)will you at this time ^(B)restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷ He said to them, ^(C)“It is not for you to know ^(D)times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. ⁸ But you will receive ^(E)power ^(F)when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and ^(G)you will be ^(H)my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and ^(I)Samaria, and ^(J)to the end of the earth.” ⁹ And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, ^(K)he was lifted up, and ^(L)a cloud took him out of their sight. ¹⁰ And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, ^(M)two ^(N)men stood by them in ^(O)white robes, ¹¹ and said, ^(P)“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, ^(Q)will ^(R)come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

¹² Then ^(S)they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. ¹³ And when they had entered, they went up to ^(T)the upper room, where they were staying, ^(U)Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon ^(V)the Zealot and Judas the son of James. ¹⁴ All these ^(W)with one accord ^(X)were devoting themselves to prayer, together with ^(Y)the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and ^(Z)his brothers.^[a]