1. In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach
2. until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit.
3. During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.
4. Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.
5. John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
6. So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?”