Acts 1:1-5
THE ASCENSION OF JESUS. The last commission of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ASCENSION OF JESUS. The last commission of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FORMER TREATISE HAVE I MADE, O THEOPHILUS, OF ALL THAT JESUS BEGAN BOTH TO DO AND TEACH,... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTIL THE DAY IN WHICH HE WAS TAKEN UP, AFTER THAT HE THROUGH THE HOLY GHOST HAD GIVEN COMMANDMENTS UNTO THE APOSTLES WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM ALSO HE SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS, BEING SEEN OF THEM FORTY DAYS, AND SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, COMMANDED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DEPART FROM JERUSALEM, BUT WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, WHICH, SAITH HE, YE HAVE HEARD OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER; BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST NOT MANY DAYS HENCE. "The former treatise," the first discourse, Luke had made, namely, in his gospel, to which he here evidently refers. The present history is a sequel to the gospel narrative; as the first writing had... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY, THEREFORE, WERE COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED OF HIM, SAYING, LORD, WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?... [ Continue Reading ]
The final promise of the Holy Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIMES OR THE SEASONS WHICH THE FATHER HATH PUT IN HIS OWN POWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU; AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA, AND IN SAMARIA, AND UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH. When Jesus referred to the nearness of the great revelation of the Spirit's gifts, the disciples, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHILE THEY BEHELD, HE WAS TAKEN UP; AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The ascension of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEADFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN AS HE WENT UP, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ALSO SAID, YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS WHICH IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN. Jesus had finished the words of His last commission to His disciples; He had entrusted to them the preaching... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN RETURNED THEY UNTO JERUSALEM FROM THE MOUNT CALLED OLIVET, WHICH IS FROM JERUSALEM A SABBATH-DAY'S JOURNEY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELECTION OF MATTHIAS. The return to Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME IN, THEY WENT UP INTO AN UPPER ROOM, WHERE ABODE BOTH PETER, AND JAMES, AND JOHN, AND ANDREW, PHILIP, AND THOMAS, BARTHOLOMEW, AND MATTHEW, JAMES, THE SON OF ALPHAEUS, AND SIMON ZELOTES, AND JUDAS, THE BROTHER OF JAMES.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ALL CONTINUED WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION, WITH THE WOMEN AND MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, AND WITH HIS BRETHREN. The ascension of Jesus took place on Mount Olivet, east of Jerusalem, not very far from the town of Bethany, Luke 24:50. its distance from the Jewish capital is a Sabb... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THOSE DAYS PETER STOOD UP IN THE MIDST OF THE DISCIPLES AND SAID, (THE NUMBER OF NAMES TOGETHER WERE ABOUT AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY,)... [ Continue Reading ]
The address of Peter:... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN AND BRETHREN, THIS SCRIPTURE MUST NEEDS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED WHICH THE HOLY GHOST BY THE MOUTH OF DAVID SPAKE BEFORE CONCERNING JUDAS, WHICH WAS GUIDE TO THEM THAT TOOK JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WAS NUMBERED WITH US, AND HAD OBTAINED PART OF THIS MINISTRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THIS MAN PURCHASED A FIELD WITH THE REWARD OF INIQUITY; AND FALLING HEADLONG, HE BURST ASUNDER IN THE MIDST, AND ALL HIS BOWELS GUSHED OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAS KNOWN UNTO ALL THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM, INSOMUCH AS THAT FIELD IS CALLED IN THEIR PROPER TONGUE, ACELDAMA, THAT IS TO SAY, THE FIELD OF BLOOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS, LET HIS HABITATION BE DESOLATE, AND LET NO MAN DWELL THEREIN; AND HIS BISHOPRIC LET ANOTHER TAKE. "In those days," on one of the ten days intervening between the ascension of Christ and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. At one of the meetings held during th... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE OF THESE MEN WHICH HAVE COMPANIED WITH US ALL THE TIME THAT THE LORD JESUS WENT IN AND OUT AMONG US,... [ Continue Reading ]
The choosing of Matthias:... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGINNING FROM THE BAPTISM OF JOHN, UNTO THAT SAME DAY THAT HE WAS TAKEN UP FROM US, MUST ONE BE ORDAINED TO BE A WITNESS WITH US OF HIS RESURRECTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY APPOINTED TWO, JOSEPH, CALLED BARSABAS, WHO WAS SURNAMED JUSTUS, AND MATTHIAS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY PRAYED AND SAID, THOU, LORD, WHICH KNOWEST THE HEARTS OF ALL MEN, SHOW WHETHER OF THESE TWO THOU HAST CHOSEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT HE MAY TAKE PART OF THIS MINISTRY AND APOSTLESHIP FROM WHICH JUDAS BY TRANSGRESSION FELL, THAT HE MIGHT GO TO HIS OWN PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY GAVE FORTH THEIR LOTS; AND THE LOT FELL UPON MATTHIAS; AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE ELEVEN APOSTLES. Having briefly referred to the regrettable vacancy in the number of the apostles, Peter now makes a proposal as to the selection of a man to succeed Judas in the high office which he had hel... [ Continue Reading ]