Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand 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 who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,