Zetemata

Acts 1

The chapter in full, then the passages inside it that are worth stopping on — what each one claims, what the Greek or Hebrew shows, and how the reading is arrived at.

Acts 1 WEB
  1. 1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
  2. 2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
  3. 3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God's Kingdom.
  4. 4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
  5. 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
  6. 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
  7. 7 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
  8. 8 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."
  9. 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
  10. 10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
  11. 11 who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
  12. 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.
  13. 13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
  14. 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
  15. 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
  16. 16 "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
  17. 17 For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
  18. 18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out.
  19. 19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field of blood.'
  20. 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;' and, 'Let another take his office.'
  21. 21 "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
  22. 22 beginning from the baptism of John to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."
  23. 23 They put forward two: Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.
  24. 24 They prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
  25. 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
  26. 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Acts opens the second half of a two-volume work — the same author, addressing the same patron, Theophilus, who received the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:3). Luke's Gospel ended with the risen Jesus and the promise of power from on high; Acts begins by picking up exactly there, at the gap between resurrection and mission, in the days before the church becomes a public fact.

1:1-3 "concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach"

The opening sentence identifies this book as a sequel: "The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1). The Greek verb for "began," ἤρξατο, is doing real work — it implies the Gospel recorded the beginning of Jesus' doing and teaching, and Acts will record the continuation. What Jesus began in the flesh, he continues through the Spirit-empowered church; the two volumes are one story, not a life followed by an appendix. Luke reinforces this with the vocabulary he already used for the Gospel — Jesus as one "mighty in deed and word" (Luke 24:19), one who "went about doing good" (Acts 10:38) — the same pattern of word and act now to be handed on.

The forty days of appearances (Acts 1:3) matter because Luke insists on evidence: "many proofs," τεκμηρίοις, a term used for demonstrable, verifiable indicators, not private impressions. Paul's later summary agrees — Jesus "appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve" (1 Corinthians 15:5) and "was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people" (Acts 13:31). The resurrection in Acts is not asserted as a feeling; it is presented as a claim resting on named, still-living witnesses, which is exactly the kind of claim first-century readers could in principle go and check.

1:6-8 "you will be witnesses to me... to the uttermost parts of the earth"

The disciples ask the wrong question in the right spirit: "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6). It is not an unreasonable question — Jewish expectation of a restored, visible kingdom under a Davidic king was old and well-founded (see Daniel 7:27), and Jesus himself had been teaching "about God's Kingdom" for forty days (Acts 1:3). The disciples had also just heard him say, not long before, that God's Kingdom "doesn't come with observation" (Luke 17:20) — and near Jerusalem they had "supposed that God's Kingdom would be revealed immediately" (Luke 19:11). The question shows old hopes reasserting themselves at the worst possible moment for getting the timing right.

Jesus does not deny the kingdom's coming; he declines to date it: "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority" (Acts 1:7). This matches his own earlier refusal on the same subject — "no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only" (Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32) — and it becomes something like apostolic policy: Paul later tells the Thessalonians they have "no need that anything be written" to them "concerning the times and the seasons" (1 Thessalonians 5:1). This is a consistent refusal across the New Testament to convert the end into a calculable date, which every generation of date-setters since has ignored at its own expense.

What Jesus redirects them to instead is not speculation but task: "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" (Acts 1:8). This verse functions as the table of contents for the rest of the book — Jerusalem (chapters 1–7), Judea and Samaria (8–12), the ends of the earth (13–28) — and as the fulfillment of John's earlier promise that one mightier than he "will baptize you in the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16), a promise Jesus himself repeats: "wait for the promise of the Father" (Acts 1:4), "you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5). The kingdom's timetable is withheld; the church's mandate is not.

1:9-11 "why do you stand looking into the sky?"

The ascension itself is told with almost clinical restraint: "he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight" (Acts 1:9) — the cloud recalling the divine presence that led Israel and overshadowed Sinai, not simply weather. Two angelic figures then interrupt the disciples' upward stare with a question that is really a redirection: "why do you stand looking into the sky?" (Acts 1:11). The rebuke is gentle but pointed — grief and wonder are not wrong, but they are not the posture Acts commends; the next verse has them walking back to Jerusalem to wait and pray, not standing in the field.

The promise attached to the ascension is precise and easily overclaimed in both directions: "This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky" (Acts 1:11). The claim is bodily, visible, personal return — not merely a spiritual presence, not a metaphor for the church's ongoing life. It does not specify when (that has just been ruled out of bounds in verse 7) or exactly how the "same way" cashes out beyond visibility and personal identity. The verse has generated centuries of eschatological art and speculation; what it actually commits to is narrower than most of that speculation — a real, visible, future return of the same Jesus, nothing more precise.

1:15-26 the replacement of Judas

The final section — Peter's speech and the choosing of Matthias — is often skipped over as procedural, but it is doing serious theological work. Peter treats Judas's betrayal and death not as a derailment of the plan but as itself scripturally anticipated: "it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas" (Acts 1:16), citing the Psalms (Acts 1:20). Judas's death is described with unflinching physical detail — "falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out" (Acts 1:18) — a note Luke does not soften; this is the only place in the New Testament where Judas's end is described this graphically, and Luke lets it stand as the field "obtained... with the reward for his wickedness" (Acts 1:18), remembered ever after as Akeldama, "the field of blood" (Acts 1:19). (Matthew's Gospel gives a different mode of death, by hanging; Luke does not harmonize the two, and neither does this exposition — the difficulty is real and worth naming rather than smoothing over.)

The qualification set for Judas's replacement is telling: it must be one of the men "who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to the day that he was received up from us," someone able to "become a witness with us of his resurrection" (Acts 1:21-22). Apostleship here is defined narrowly by direct, eyewitness continuity with the earthly and risen Jesus — which is why the office of "apostle" in this founding sense is not something later Christians, however gifted, can hold. The community narrows two candidates by prayer — addressing God as one who "know[s] the hearts of all men" (Acts 1:24), καρδιογνῶστα, "heart-knower" — and then casts lots (Acts 1:26), an Old Testament method of discernment (compare the casting of lots throughout Israel's history) that the New Testament nowhere repeats after Pentecost, when guidance comes instead through the indwelling Spirit. The number twelve is restored precisely because the Spirit's outpouring, and the church's launch into "Jerusalem... Judea and Samaria... the uttermost parts of the earth" (Acts 1:8; cf. Acts 2:1-6), is about to happen, and Luke wants the founding circle complete before it does.

What the chapter asks

Acts 1 sets the terms before the story starts running: a claim resting on checkable testimony, not sentiment; a kingdom whose timing is deliberately withheld even from those who ask directly; and a task — witness, to the ends of the earth — substituted for the timetable they wanted. The chapter puts a question to anyone reading it that mirrors the angels' question to the disciples: whether attention goes to speculation about when and how it ends, or to the work assigned in the meantime.

The verses this turns on

Acts 1:1 WEB
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

Τὸν μὲν πρῶτον λόγον ἐποιησάμην περὶ πάντων, ὦ Θεόφιλε, ὧν ἤρξατο ὁ Ἰησοῦς ποιεῖν τε καὶ διδάσκειν,

  • Τὸν ὁ article · accusative singular masculine G3588
  • μὲν μέν particle G3303
  • πρῶτον πρῶτος adjective · accusative singular masculine G4413
  • λόγον λόγος noun · accusative singular masculine G3056
  • ἐποιησάμην ποιέω verb · aorist middle indicative, 1st person singular G4160
  • περὶ περί preposition G4012
  • πάντων, πᾶς adjective · genitive plural neuter G3956
  • ὦ ὦ interjection G5599
  • Θεόφιλε, Θεόφιλος noun · vocative singular masculine G2321
  • ὧν ὅς relative pronoun · genitive plural neuter G3739
  • ἤρξατο ἄρχω verb · aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular G756
  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Luke 1:3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
  2. Luke 24:19 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
  3. Matthew 4:23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
  4. Luke 3:23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
  5. 1 Peter 2:21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
Acts 1:2 WEB
until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας ἐντειλάμενος τοῖς ἀποστόλοις διὰ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου οὓς ἐξελέξατο ἀνελήμφθη·

  • ἄχρι ἄχρι adverb G891
  • ἧς ὅς relative pronoun · genitive singular feminine G3739
  • ἡμέρας ἡμέρα noun · genitive singular feminine G2250
  • ἐντειλάμενος ἐντέλλομαι verb · aorist middle deponent participle, nominative singular masculine G1781
  • τοῖς ὁ article · dative plural masculine G3588
  • ἀποστόλοις ἀπόστολος noun · dative plural masculine G652
  • διὰ διά preposition G1223
  • Πνεύματος πνεῦμα noun · genitive singular neuter G4151
  • Ἁγίου ἅγιος adjective · genitive singular neuter G40
  • οὓς ὅς relative pronoun · accusative plural masculine G3739
  • ἐξελέξατο ἐκλέγω verb · aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular G1586
  • ἀνελήμφθη· ἀναλαμβάνω verb · aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular G353

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Acts 1:9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
  2. John 20:21 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
  3. Isaiah 59:20 "A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says Yahweh.
  4. Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
  5. Hebrews 9:24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Acts 1:3 WEB
To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God's Kingdom.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

οἷς καὶ παρέστησεν ἑαυτὸν ζῶντα μετὰ τὸ παθεῖν αὐτὸν ἐν πολλοῖς τεκμηρίοις, δι’ ἡμερῶν τεσσεράκοντα ὀπτανόμενος αὐτοῖς καὶ λέγων τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ·

  • οἷς ὅς relative pronoun · dative plural masculine G3739
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • παρέστησεν παρίστημι verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G3936
  • ἑαυτὸν ἑαυτοῦ reflexive pronoun G1438
  • ζῶντα ζάω verb · present active participle, accusative singular masculine G2198
  • μετὰ μετά preposition G3326
  • τὸ ὁ article · accusative singular neuter G3588
  • παθεῖν πάσχω verb · aorist active infinitive G3958
  • αὐτὸν αὐτός personal pronoun · accusative singular masculine G846
  • ἐν ἐν preposition G1722
  • πολλοῖς πολύς adjective · dative plural neuter G4183
  • τεκμηρίοις, τεκμήριον noun · dative plural neuter G5039

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. 1 Corinthians 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
  2. Acts 13:31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
  3. John 20:26 After eight days, again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, "Peace be to you."
  4. 1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
  5. John 21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
Acts 1:4 WEB
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

καὶ συναλιζόμενος παρήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων μὴ χωρίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ περιμένειν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Πατρὸς ἣν ἠκούσατέ μου·

  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • συναλιζόμενος συναλίζομαι verb · present middle or passive deponent participle, nominative singular masculine G4871
  • παρήγγειλεν παραγγέλλω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G3853
  • αὐτοῖς αὐτός personal pronoun · dative plural masculine G846
  • ἀπὸ ἀπό preposition G575
  • Ἱεροσολύμων Ἱεροσόλυμα noun · genitive plural neuter G2414
  • μὴ μή particle · nominative G3361
  • χωρίζεσθαι, χωρίζω verb · present middle or passive infinitive G5563
  • ἀλλὰ ἀλλά conjunction G235
  • περιμένειν περιμένω verb · present active infinitive G4037
  • τὴν ὁ article · accusative singular feminine G3588
  • ἐπαγγελίαν ἐπαγγελία noun · accusative singular feminine G1860

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Luke 24:49 Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."
  2. John 14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
  3. John 15:26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
  4. John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
  5. Acts 2:33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.
Acts 1:5 WEB
For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

ὅτι Ἰωάνης μὲν ἐβάπτισεν ὕδατι, ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐν Πνεύματι βαπτισθήσεσθε Ἁγίῳ οὐ μετὰ πολλὰς ταύτας ἡμέρας.

  • ὅτι ὅτι conjunction G3754
  • Ἰωάνης Ἰωάννης noun · nominative singular masculine G2491
  • μὲν μέν particle G3303
  • ἐβάπτισεν βαπτίζω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G907
  • ὕδατι, ὕδωρ noun · dative singular neuter G5204
  • ὑμεῖς σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
  • ἐν ἐν preposition G1722
  • Πνεύματι πνεῦμα noun · dative singular neuter G4151
  • βαπτισθήσεσθε βαπτίζω verb · future passive indicative, 2nd person plural G907
  • Ἁγίῳ ἅγιος adjective · dative singular neuter G40
  • οὐ οὐ particle · nominative G3756

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
  2. Acts 11:15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
  3. Luke 3:16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.
  4. 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
  5. Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Acts 1:6 WEB
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

Οἱ μὲν οὖν συνελθόντες ἠρώτων αὐτὸν λέγοντες Κύριε, εἰ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τούτῳ ἀποκαθιστάνεις τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Ἰσραήλ;

  • Οἱ ὁ article · nominative plural masculine G3588
  • μὲν μέν particle G3303
  • οὖν οὖν conjunction G3767
  • συνελθόντες συνέρχομαι verb · aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine G4905
  • ἠρώτων ἐρωτάω verb · imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural G2065
  • αὐτὸν αὐτός personal pronoun · accusative singular masculine G846
  • λέγοντες λέγω verb · present active participle, nominative plural masculine G3004
  • Κύριε, κύριος noun · vocative singular masculine G2962
  • εἰ εἰ conditional G1487
  • ἐν ἐν preposition G1722
  • τῷ ὁ article · dative singular masculine G3588
  • χρόνῳ χρόνος noun · dative singular masculine G5550

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Luke 19:11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God's Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
  2. Luke 17:20 Being asked by the Pharisees when God's Kingdom would come, he answered them, "God's Kingdom doesn't come with observation;
  3. Daniel 7:27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.'
  4. Matthew 24:3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
  5. Ezekiel 37:24 "'"My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes, and do them.
Acts 1:7 WEB
He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς Οὐχ ὑμῶν ἐστιν γνῶναι χρόνους ἢ καιροὺς οὓς ὁ Πατὴρ ἔθετο ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ,

  • εἶπεν λέγω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G3004
  • πρὸς πρός preposition G4314
  • αὐτούς αὐτός personal pronoun · accusative plural masculine G846
  • Οὐχ οὐ particle · nominative G3756
  • ὑμῶν σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • ἐστιν εἰμί verb · present active indicative, 3rd person singular G1510
  • γνῶναι γινώσκω verb · aorist active infinitive G1097
  • χρόνους χρόνος noun · accusative plural masculine G5550
  • ἢ ἤ particle G2228
  • καιροὺς καιρός noun · accusative plural masculine G2540
  • οὓς ὅς relative pronoun · accusative plural masculine G3739
  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Matthew 24:36 "But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
  3. Mark 13:32 "But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
  4. Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
  5. Mark 10:40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
Acts 1:8 WEB
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."
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

ἀλλὰ λήμψεσθε δύναμιν ἐπελθόντος τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσεσθέ μου μάρτυρες ἔν τε Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ καὶ Σαμαρίᾳ καὶ ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς.

  • ἀλλὰ ἀλλά conjunction G235
  • λήμψεσθε λαμβάνω verb · future middle deponent indicative, 2nd person plural G2983
  • δύναμιν δύναμις noun · accusative singular feminine G1411
  • ἐπελθόντος ἐπέρχομαι verb · aorist active participle, genitive singular neuter G1904
  • τοῦ ὁ article · genitive singular neuter G3588
  • Ἁγίου ἅγιος adjective · genitive singular neuter G40
  • Πνεύματος πνεῦμα noun · genitive singular neuter G4151
  • ἐφ’ ἐπί preposition G1909
  • ὑμᾶς, σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἔσεσθέ εἰμί verb · future middle deponent indicative, 2nd person plural G1510
  • μου ἐγώ personal pronoun G1473

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Matthew 28:19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  2. Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  3. Romans 15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
  4. Acts 4:33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
  5. Acts 5:32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

From the interpretive tradition

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Tertullian Apology, 50 father · patristic public domain
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Watchman Nee The Normal Christian Life, ch. 3 pastor · chinese house church

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