And having met with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which you heard from Me.

Therefore being exalted to the right of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear.

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

But as the time was drawing near, of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Of this man's seed God has raised to Israel, according to His promise, a Savior, Jesus;

And we preach the gospel to you, the promise made to the fathers,

But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made to our fathers by God,

to which promise our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.