72 The ^amessenger who visited us on this occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his name was John, the same that is called ^bJohn the Baptist in the New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of ^cPeter, James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be conferred on us, and that I should be called the first ^dElder of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and baptized.

  48 And ye are ^awitnesses of these things.

  8 But ye shall receive ^apower, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be ^bwitnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in ^cSamaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.