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 to all people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after his rising from the dead.

And yet they not believing from joy, and wondering, he said to them, Have ye any food here?

Commanded

And, behold, I send the solemn promise of my Father upon you: and do ye sit in the city of Jerusalem, till ye be clothed with power from on high.

The promise

Therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which ye now see and hear.

For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.

If then ye, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children; how much more the Father, be from heaven, will give the Holy Spirit to them asking him ?

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what ye must say.

(This spake he of the Spirit which they believing in him were about to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet; for Jesus was not yet honoured.)

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever;

And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me:

But I say the truth to you; it is profitable to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Intercessor shall not come to you; and if I go, I will send him to you.

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