A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                     PART I - IX

"We, Jesus' eleven disciples (Judas was no longer with us) have just seen Jesus go up into heaven.... It was quite an experience we were not really prepared for.... However, we then had a visit from two angels from heaven..... They told us that Jesus would one day come back in the same way that He had gone into heaven....We then realised that we could not just stay around... For we were not told when exactly He would return.... So we returned to Jerusalem.... There we gathered in our usual place with others... Jesus' mother Mary and His brothers joined us as well."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that after the visit of two angels the eleven disciples returned to Jerusalem...

                  ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                     PART I -IX 

The disciples tried to keep following Jesus with their eyes until He was no longer visible as we can read in Acts 1:10-11

They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them, "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? The same Jesus, who has been taken from you  into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven."

As the disciples were having their eyes turned upward, two angels appeared without them noticing. These angels then began to speak to them to help them understand that Jesus had really gone back to His Father. However, one day He would return in the same way that they had seen Him go into heaven. But they did not know when that would happen so they decided they better return to Jerusalem as you can read in Acts 1:12-14

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath's day walk from the City. When they arrived they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James, son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

Other followers of Jesus joined the eleven disciples, including Jesus' mother Mary and His brothers. Together, they spent the time in prayer.