Empowerment for Service
1The first account I composed, (A)Theophilus, about all that Jesus (B)began to do and teach,
2until the day when He (C)was taken up to heaven, after He (D)had by the Holy Spirit given orders to (E)the apostles whom He had (F)chosen.
3To these (G)He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of (H)the things concerning the kingdom of God.
4Gathering them together, He commanded them (I)not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for (J)what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;
5for (K)John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit (L)not many days from now.”
6So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, (M)is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
7He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which (N)the Father has fixed by His own authority;
8but you will receive power (O)when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be (P)My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and (Q)Samaria, and even to (R)the remotest part of the earth.”
Notes:
Willing to Take the Challenge?