18. They will pick up serpents [with their hands], and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19. So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
20. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.][And they reported all the instructions briefly to Peter’s companions. Afterwards Jesus himself, through them, sent forth from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.]