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Acts 1:7-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

8. But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.

9. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments.

11. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.

12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey.

13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James.

14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15. In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said: (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty:)

16. Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:

17. Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

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