Acts 1:6-11
When they were together for the last time they asked, “Master, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now? Is this the time?”
He told them, “You don’t get to know the time. Timing is the Father’s business. What you’ll get is the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world.”
These were his last words. As they watched, he was taken up and disappeared in a cloud. They stood there, staring into the empty sky. Suddenly two men appeared—in white robes! They said, “You Galileans!—why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky? This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly—and mysteriously—as he left.”
This reading is from the book we generally call “Acts” – it’s proper name is the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. It was written by the author of Luke’s gospel – believed to be the Luke who was one of Paul’s traveling companions. It is basically a direct continuation from that gospel, picking right up where the gospel ends. In the days since the resurrection Jesus has appeared a number of times to the various disciples – teaching them, and reassuring them. This reading is about the last of those appearances.
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