The Promise of the Holy Spirit

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,

until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

The Coming of the Holy Spirit

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,

who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?

for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.

and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,