But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of Elohim:
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Moshiach, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
But ye shall receive power, after that Ruach HaKodesh is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Yerushalayim, and in all Yhudah, and in Shomron, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
That I should be the minister of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach to the Gentiles, ministering the good news of Elohim, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by Ruach HaKodesh.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.