Acts 1:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach,

² Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.

³ To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.