Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
001:001 My former narrative, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus
did and taught as a beginning, down to the day on which,
001:002 after giving instruction through the Holy Spirit to the Apostles
whom He had chosen, He was taken up to Heaven.
001:003 He had also, after He suffered, shown Himself alive to them
with many sure proofs, appearing to them at intervals during
forty days, and speaking of the Kingdom of God.
001:004 And while in their company He charged them not to leave
Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father's promised gift.
"This you have heard of," He said, "from me.
001:005 For John indeed baptized with water, but before many days
have passed you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
001:006 Once when they were with Him, they asked Him, "Master, is this
the time at which you are about to restore the kingdom of Israel?"
001:007 "It is not for you," He replied, "to know times or epochs
which the Father has reserved within His own authority;
001:008 and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth."
001:009 When He had said this, and while they were looking
at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him
hid Him from their sight.
001:010 But, while they stood intently gazing into the sky as He went, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,
001:011 who said, "Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven."
001:012 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Oliveyard, which is near Jerusalem, about a mile off.
001:013 They entered the city, and they went up to the upper room which was now their fixed place for meeting. Their names were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James.
001:014 All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer,
together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus,
and His brothers.
001:015 It was on one of these days that Peter stood up in the midst
of the brethren—the entire number of persons present being
about 120—and said,
001:016 "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled— the prediction, I mean, which the Holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.
001:017 For Judas was reckoned as one of our number, and a share in this ministr