Acts 1:4

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Summary

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.

Being assembled together

Acts 10:41

Luke 24:41

Commanded

Luke 24:49

The promise

Bible References

Being assembled together

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?

Commanded

And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.

The promise

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

For ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the hour itself what should be said.

But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;

But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

And having said this, he breathed into them, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit: