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 indeed to every one, but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God--to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

While they were still unable to believe it all for very joy, and were wondering if it were true, Jesus said to them: "Have you anything here to eat?"

Commanded

And now I am myself about to send upon you that which my Father has promised. But you must remain in the city until you have been invested with power from above."

The promise

And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

For it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you.

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"

For the Holy Spirit will show you at the moment what you ought to say."

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you always--the Spirit of Truth.

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

After saying this, he breathed on them, and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit;