This translation is from the New American Bible. The bolded hyperlinks will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context.
Information about the meaning the original Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. They are provided beneath the specific reading they relate to.
Excerpts collected in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
Excerpts collected in green at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do.
Reading I
In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.
While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”
Instructions =ἐντέλλω = entellō
Charge, to order, command, enjoin
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
enjoin, command
power = δύναμις = dynamis
Force; ability, capability, ability to perform anything; used of works of a supernatural origin and character, such as could not be produced by natural agents and means; strength; moral power and excellence of soul;ability, abundance, meaning; the power of God; the power of performing miracles; authority
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
strength, power, ability to do anything;outward power, influence, authority; means; faculty, capacity;function, meaning; faculty, art, or craft; potency; force or meaning; manifestation of divine power, miracle
witnesses= μάρτυς= martys
one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows;one who is a spectator of anything; those who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death; one who is mindful, heeds
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
Witness; martyr
Responsorial Psalm
R. (6) God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness,
For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth.
R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the LORD, amid trumpet blasts.
Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise.
R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise.
God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne.
R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Go and teach all nations, says the Lord; I am with you always, until the end of the world.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.
preach = κηρύσσω = kēryssō
to be a herald, or, in general, to proclaim, publish;to proclaim after the manner of a herald; always with the suggestion of formality, gravity and an authority which must be listened to and obeyed; proclaim openly: something which has been done
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
to be a herald, officiate as herald; to be an auctioneer; make proclamation; summon; extoll; call upon, invoke; announce; advertise; invite; declare, tell, crow
believe = πιστεύω = pisteuō
to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence; to entrust, commit to; to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; to credit; the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul; mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith; put in trust with; a conviction, full of joyful trust ...conjoined with obedience; to have a faith directed unto, believing or in faith to give oneself up to
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
trust, put faith in, rely on; entertain a confident opinion; comply; believe that, feel confident that a thing is, will be, has been; have faith; entrust
worked = συνεργέω = synergeō
to help in work, to co-operate, be a co-worker; to work with or together; be partner in labour; to put forth power together with and thereby to assist; to be a fellow-worker, i.e. co-operate; to assist, help
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
help in work, co-operate; assist, contribute to or towards; facilitate
What these readings tell us about God/His ways:
giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen
He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God
you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit
It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you
Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the
the LORD, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth.
God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy
For king of all the earth is God
God reigns over the nations
a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him
the hope that belongs to his call
the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones
the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe
the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ
raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens
far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come
he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things the church, which is his body
the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
I am with you always, until the end of the world
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover
took his seat at the right hand of God
the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs
What these readings tell us to do:
wait for
the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth
clap your hands
shout to God with cries of gladness
Sing praise to God
sing praise
sing praise to our king
sing praise
sing hymns of praise
knowledge of him
Go and teach all nations
Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature
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