MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 {Events from 30 - 63 AD are recorded including all the examples of Christian conversions. Tiberius Caesar, Emperor, 14-37 AD. Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea. Herod Antipas, governor of Galilee.}
O Theophilus, I indeed made* the first account concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
1:2 till the day in which he was received up, when he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
{Lk 24:44-49 & Acts 1:3-8 & 1Cor: 15:7 Jerusalem.}

1:3 The apostles to whom, he also presented himself as living with many definite-proofs after he had suffered on the cross, being seen by them through out forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.
1:4 And, {F} being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to remain until the promise of the Father, which he said and you* have heard from me,
1:5 Because John indeed immersed* in water, but you* will be immersed* in the Holy Spirit after not many days .
{May 18, 30AD Mount of Olives.}

1:6 Therefore indeed, when they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?

1:7 And he said to them, It is not yours* to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority.
1:8 But you* will receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you* and you* will be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the outermost parts of the earth .
{Mk 16:19-20 & Lk 24:50-53 & Acts 1:9-12 Olivet, between Jerusalem and Bethany.}

1:9 And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him out of their staring eyes.
1:10 And while they were staring as he went into heaven, behold, two men stood beside them in white apparel;
1:11 who also said, Men, Galileans! Why do you* stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you* into heaven will come back thus in the manner you* saw him going into heaven.

1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey off.
1:13 And when they had entered, they went up into the upstairs room, where they were remaining; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the {F} son of James.
1:14 All these men with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren persevered united in prayer and supplication.

1:15 And Peter stood up in these days in the midst of the disciples (and a crowd of {F} people were gathered together, approximately a hundred and twenty) and said,
1:16 Brethren, it was essential that this Scripture might be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit said beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who took Jesus,
1:17 because he was numbered together with us and was allotted his portion in this service.
{Mt 27:3-10 & Acts 1:18-19.}

1:18 (Therefore indeed, this man procured a parcel of ground with the reward of his unrighteousness, and he happened to fall-flat and ruptured in the middle and all his bowels were poured out.
1:19 And it became known to all the dwellers in Jerusalem; so-that in their own language that place was called Akeldama, that is, The Place of Blood.)
1:20 For* it has been written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate and do not let there be one dwelling in it' {Ps. 69:25} and, ‘Let another take his overseership.' {Ps. 109:8}
1:21 Therefore, of those men who have accompanied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
1:22 beginning from the immersion* of John, to the day that he was received up from us, it is essential one of these is to become a witness with us of his resurrection.
1:23 And they stood up two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus and Matthias.
1:24 And after praying, they said, You Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one out of these two you have chosen
1:25 to receive the portion of this service and apostleship from which Judas transgressed, so as to travel to his own place.
1:26 And they gave them their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was enumerated with the eleven apostles.
{* is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for. Acts 1:4- Or: eating with them. Acts 1:13- Or: brother. SEE Jude. Acts 1:15- GREEK: names. SEE Rev. 3:4.}
{Sunday May 28, 30AD Jerusalem.}