SCRIPTURE
Acts 1: 6-14
6 So when they had come together, they asked him,
"Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the
Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." 9 When he had said this,
as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their
sight. 10 While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two
men in white robes stood by them. 11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you
stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into
heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." 12 Then
they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near
Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away. 13 When they had entered the city, they
went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James,
and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus,
and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 All these were constantly
devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the
mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.