Acts 1:2-17

²until the day in which He was taken back, after He had given commandment, by Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He had chosen;

³to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

⁴And being together He directed them not to go away from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “which you heard from me;

⁵John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

⁶Well then, being together they asked Him saying, “Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

⁷So He said to them: “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has placed within His own authority.

⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me—both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last part of the earth.”

⁹Upon saying these things, as they watched, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

¹⁰And as they were staring into the sky, while He was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood beside them;

¹¹and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.”

¹²They then returned to Jerusalem from the mount called ‘of Olives’, which is near Jerusalem (a Sabbath day's journey).

¹³When they had entered the city they went up into the upper room where they were staying: namely Peter and James, John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James.

¹⁴All these were continuing with one purpose in prayer and petition, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

¹⁵Well in those days Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (the number of people assembled there was about 120) and said:

¹⁶“Men, brothers: It was necessary that this Scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by David's mouth concerning Judas, who was guide to those who arrested Jesus;

¹⁷in that he was numbered with us and obtained his share in this ministry.”