Acts 1:4-7
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4 While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father[a] about which you have heard me speak;(A) 5 for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.”(B)
The Ascension of Jesus. 6 When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going[b] to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 [c]He answered them,(C) “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority.
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- 1:4 The promise of the Father: the holy Spirit, as is clear from the next verse. This gift of the Spirit was first promised in Jesus’ final instructions to his chosen witnesses in Luke’s gospel (Lk 24:49) and formed part of the continuing instructions of the risen Jesus on the kingdom of God, of which Luke speaks in Acts 1:3.
- 1:6 The question of the disciples implies that in believing Jesus to be the Christ (see note on Lk 2:11) they had expected him to be a political leader who would restore self-rule to Israel during his historical ministry. When this had not taken place, they ask if it is to take place at this time, the period of the church.
- 1:7 This verse echoes the tradition that the precise time of the parousia is not revealed to human beings; cf. Mk 13:32; 1 Thes 5:1–3.
Acts 1:13-14
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The First Community in Jerusalem. 13 When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.(A)
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