Acts 1:7-15

⁷“You don't need to know about the dates and times that are set by the Father's authority,” he told them.

⁸“But you will be given power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest places on earth.”

⁹After Jesus had told them this, he was taken up as they were watching and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰While they were staring intently at the sky as he ascended, two men dressed in white were suddenly standing beside them.

¹¹“Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky?” they asked. “This same Jesus who has been taken up from you to heaven shall come in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”

¹²Then the disciples went back to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives which is about a Sabbath day's walk from Jerusalem.

¹³When they arrived, they went upstairs to the upper room where they were staying: Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹⁴They all joined together in prayer, together with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers.

¹⁵At this time Peter stood up and addressed a crowd of around one hundred and twenty believers who had gathered together.