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The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

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until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

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To whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

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and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [said he], ye heard from me:

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For John indeed baptized with water but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.