Acts of the Apostles 1:2

In context

1In my first book, Theophilus, I set down all that Jesus began to do and to teach, 2up to the day he was taken up, after he had given his instructions, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles he had chosen. 3To these same men he presented himself alive after his suffering, with proof upon proof: over forty days he let them see him, and he spoke to them about the kingdom of God. 4While he was at table with them he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. “You heard it from my own lips: