Apostles: Duties of Commission of, Above,

You are witnesses of these things.

And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have accompanied us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

…beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree, …

…and for many days He was seen by those who had accompanied Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now His witnesses to our people.

For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. …