And while in assembly with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for what had been promised by the Father, which [said he] ye heard from me;

They therefore, having come together, asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel?

But he said to them, It belongeth not to you to know times or seasons, which the Father appointed by his own authority.

And having thus spoken, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

And while they were looking earnestly into heaven as he went up, lo! two men stood by them in white apparel,

Brethren, it was necessary that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus.

Now this man purchased a field with the wages of the iniquity; and falling headlong he burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.

And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own tongue, Aceldamach, that is, Field of Blood.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, "Let his habitation be made desolate, and let no one dwell therein;" and, "Let another take his office."

Of these men, therefore, who accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

And suddenly there came out of heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind; and it filled the whole house where they were sitting;

Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

and how is it that we every one hear them in our own language, wherein we were born?

Cretans and Arabianshow is it that we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God?

And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, What can this mean?

Others making sport of it, said, They are full of new wine.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Men of Judea, and all that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and hearken to my words.

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; for it is the third hour of the day;

but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel,

"It shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams;

and even on my servants, and on my handmaids, I will pour out of my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

And it shall be that every one that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

But God raised him up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

And when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what must we do?

And Peter and John were going up together to the temple, at the hour of prayer, which is the ninth hour.

And a certain man lame from his birth was carried along, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who entered the temple;

Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

and they recognized him as the man that sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.

But Peter seeing it, answered the people: Men of Israel, why wonder ye at this? Or why look ye earnestly on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man to walk?

But God thus fulfilled what he had before announced by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

Repent therefore and turn from your ways, that your sins may be blotted out, in order that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

And it shall come to pass, that every soul which doth not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people."

And they laid hands upon them, and put them in prison until the next day; for it was now evening.

And it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers and elders and scribes,

and Annas the highpriest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the highpriest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, did ye do this?

If we are this day examined in respect to a good deed done to a cripple, by what means he hath been restored,