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The Acts 1:8-15 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

8. But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

9. And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10. And while they were looking stedfastly into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

11. which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, which was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.

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

13. And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

14. These all with one accord continued stedfastly in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15. And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

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