| 1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus
began both to do and to teach, 2 until the day in which he was received
up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the
apostles whom he had chosen: 3 To whom he also showed himself alive after
his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days,
and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God: 4 and, being
assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem,
but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard
from me: 5 For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized
in the Holy Spirit not many days hence. 6 They therefore, when they were
come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know
times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.
8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and
ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria,
and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 9 And when he had said these
things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out
of their sight. 10 And while they were looking stedfastly into heaven as
he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 who also said,
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, who was
received up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye beheld
him going into heaven. 12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount
called Olivet, which is nigh unto Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey off.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where
they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and
Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14 These all with one
accord continued stedfastly in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of
Jesus, and with his brethren. 15 And in these days Peter stood up in the
midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons
gathered together, about a hundred and twenty), 16 Brethren, it
was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit
spake before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to them
that took Jesus. 17 For he was numbered among us, and received his portion
in this ministry. 18 (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his
iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his
bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the dwellers at
Jerusalem; insomuch that in their language that field was called Akeldama,
that is, The field of blood.) 20 For it is written in the book of
Psalms,
Let his habitation be made desolate,
And let no man dwell therein:
and,
His office let another take.
21 Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that the
Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of
John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become
a witness with us of his resurrection. 23 And they put forward two, Joseph
called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. 24 And they
prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show of
these two the one whom thou hast chosen, 25 to take the place in this
ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his
own place. 26 And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias;
and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
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