and being assembled together with them, He commanded them, Not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which ye heard from me;

Therefore on the right hand of God exalted, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, has poured out this which you both see and hear.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, so many as the Lord our God may call.

When the time of the promise which God made with Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

From whose seed according to the promise he led forth Jesus, the Savior, to Israel:

And we preach unto you the promise, which was made to the fathers,

Therefore do not be persuaded by them: for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, who have obligated themselves by an oath, neither to eat nor drink until they may kill him: and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.

And now for the hope of the promise which is from God to our fathers, I stand being judged: