Luke 24:48

“But also some women among us astounded us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning,

“Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

and you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the end of the earth.”

but put to death the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

And with great power the apostles were bearing witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

“And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God gave to those who obey Him.”

“And we are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

and for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,