The Ascension

So when[a] they had come together, they began asking[b] him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” But he said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when[c] the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had come together”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 1:6 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)
  3. Acts 1:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“has come”)