Acts 1

Acts 1:4

But wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

But wait for the performance of that promise, which God the Father hath made concerning the sending down of the Holy Ghost; which promise, said he, ye have heard related to you, by me.

Acts 1:6

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

Lord, we have heard, and have all this while believed, that there is a temporal kingdom to be restored to the now-enthralled and tributary people of Israel, by the Messiah: we know thee to be that Messiah, which should come: thou hast mightily declared thyself to be the Son of God, by thy rising from death, so as no human power can be able to resist thee: wilt thou now therefore, at this time, satisfy the expectation of thy people, and break off this servile yoke of the Romans, and restore the kingdom to Israel?

Acts 1:7

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

This question of yours is curious and misgrounded: it is true, that I shall restore the kingdom to Israel, spiritually; not in a carnal and temporal manner, as ye weakly suppose, but by ruling in the hearts of men by the power of my Gospel, and, at last, by perfecting the full glory of my Church: but, when this shall be effected, it is not for you to enquire: there is enough revealed truth for you to content yourselves with: do not ye offer to pry into those matters and seasons, the knowledge whereof God the Father hath thought fit to reserve to himself.

Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.

That, which concerns you, is, to look unto the work whereto ye are designed: ere long ye shall receive power from above, and be furnished with abilities to carry my Gospel into the world; for which purpose, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you, in miraculous gifts and graces; and ye shall be witnesses to me, to declare and justify unto the world the truth of my Resurrection and the power of my Godhead, beginning at Jerusalem and so proceeding to the rest of Judea and Galilee, and then even to Samaria itself and to all the nations of the earth without all exception or limitation.

Acts 1:10

And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel.

Two angels stood by them, in the form of men, clothed in bright apparel.

Acts 1:11

Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,

shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Ye men of Galilee, the late disciples of Jesus, why stand ye thus, with your eyes fixed upon that point of heaven, where your Master ascended; as if you could still see him; as if your eyes would follow him up into that glory? Know, that now ye must exercise rather the eyes of your faith; and that the heavens must contain that glorious Master and Saviour of yours, till his second coming to Judgment: at which time, ye shall see him returning from heaven, in the same glorious manner, wherein ye saw him ascending up thither.

Acts 1:18

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Now this man received that reward or hire of his treachery, wherewith a field was afterwards purchased; and, when he had done, in a late remorse, offered a desperate violence to himself.

Acts 1:25

From which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

From which Judas, by that wicked treason against his Master, fell: that he might go to that place, which was fit for so foul a traitor, and such a hypocrite; who had all this while taken up a room, that he was utterly unworthy of.