Acts 1:8

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Acts 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

9 After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

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Acts 2:2

Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

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Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

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“Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

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As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Zechariah 4:6

So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

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Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.

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And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 11:4

These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

Revelation 11:5

If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.

Revelation 11:6

These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

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The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

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But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

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beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Acts 2:32

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

Acts 4:33

With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.

Acts 5:32

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 10:39

We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,

Acts 10:40

God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

Acts 10:41

not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

Acts 13:31

and for many days He was seen by those who had accompanied Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now His witnesses to our people.

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You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

Matthew 28:19

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

Mark 16:15

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Luke 24:46

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

Luke 24:47

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Luke 24:48

You are witnesses of these things.

Luke 24:49

And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

John 15:27

And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

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Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.

Acts 8:6

The crowds gave their undivided attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.

Acts 8:7

With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.

Acts 8:8

So there was great joy in that city.

Acts 8:9

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Acts 8:10

and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and said, “This man is the divine power called the Great Power.”

Acts 8:11

They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.

Acts 8:12

But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 8:13

Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.

Acts 8:14

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Acts 8:15

On their arrival, they prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:16

For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 8:17

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:18

When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.

Acts 8:20

But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

Acts 8:21

You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

Acts 8:22

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

Acts 8:23

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

Acts 8:24

Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Acts 8:25

And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

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He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

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Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

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He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

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The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

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I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”