The Ascension

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They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, `Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?'

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and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;

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but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

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And these things having said--they beholding--he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

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and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel,

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who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'

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