1 ⁶ So, when they were all together, they asked him, 'Lord, is this the time when you are to establish once again the sovereignty of Israel?' 1 ⁷ He answered, 'It is not for you to know about dates or times, which the Father has set within his own control. 1 ⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will bear witness for me in Jerusalem, and all over Judaea and Samaria, and away to the ends of the earth.'
1 ⁹ When he had said this, as they watched, he was lifted up, and a cloud removed him from their sight. 1 ¹⁰ As he was going, and as they were gazing intently into the sky, all at once there stood beside them two men in white 1 ¹¹ who said, 'Men of Galilee, why stand there looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken away from you up to heaven, will come in the same way as you have seen him go.'