"I am going to send you what My Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."
- Luke 24:49

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the basis of all Christian preaching; with these topics as a foundation there can be no real Gospel proclamation. But this ministry, which was once more given into their care, cannot be carried on properly in a man's own strength; and this was true above all in those early days of Gospel teaching.

For that reason Jesus gives the apostles the asssurance that