Bible Verses About The Apostles

and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace--to you;'

and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.

And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?

see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'

till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,

to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, `Ye did hear of me;

because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit--after not many days.'

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

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

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.'

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

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.