PETER AFTER HIS ESCAPE (Acts xii. 17)



THE ASCENSION

'The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
began both to do and teach, 2. Until the day in which He was
taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given
commandments unto the Apostles whom He had chosen: 3. To whom
also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible
proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God: 4. And, being assembled
together with them, commanded them that they should not depart
from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which,
saith He, ye have heard of Me. 5. For John truly baptized with
water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days
hence. 6. When they therefore were come together, they asked of
Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the
kingdom to Israel? 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. 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 Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth. 9. And when He had spoken these
things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received
Him out of their sight. 10. And while they looked stedfastly
toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in
white apparel; l1. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand
ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from