Acts 1:6-20

6So, when they had come together, they began asking Him, saying, “Lord, 1is it at this time that You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” 7But He said to them, “It is not for you to know periods of time or appointed times which 2the Father has set by His own authority; 8but you will receive power 3when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be 4My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and 5Samaria, and as far as 6the remotest part of the earth.” 9And after He had said these things, 7He was lifted up while they were watching, and a cloud took Him up, out of their sight. 10And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, then behold, 8two men in white clothing stood beside them, 11and they said, “9Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who 10has been taken up from you into heaven, will 11come in the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

12Then they 12returned to Jerusalem from the 1314mountain called 15Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a 16Sabbath day’s journey away. 13When they had entered the city, they went up to 17the upstairs room where they were staying, that is, 18Peter, John, 19James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, 20James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and 21Judas the 22son of 23James. 14All these 24were continually devoting themselves with one 25mind to prayer, along with 26the women, and Mary the 27mother of Jesus, and with His 28brothers.

1529At this time Peter stood up among 30the brothers and sisters (a group of about 120 31people was there together), and said, 16“32Brothers, 33the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, 34who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17For he was 35counted among us and received his share in 36this ministry.” 18(Now this man 37acquired a field with 38the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out. 19And it became known to all the residents of Jerusalem; as a result that field was called Hakeldama in 39their own language, that is, Field of Blood.) 20“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘40May his residence be made desolate, And may there be none living in it’; and, ‘41May another take his 42office.’