On one occasion, while he was
eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave
Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have
heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few
days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you
at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or
dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
ends of the earth.”
After he said this, he was
taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their
sight.
They were looking
intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men
dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand
here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from
you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go
into heaven.