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Acts 1:8

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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Acts 1:8 in other translations

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8 · American Standard Version

Acts 1:8 in context

  1. 6Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
  2. 7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
  3. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
  4. 9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
  5. 10While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,