And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me;

Being therefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you both see and hear.

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

You are the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

Of the posterity of this man, according to his promise, has God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,