Acts 1
1:1Indeed the first matter I made concerning all the things, O Theophilus, which Jesus began to both do and to teach,
1:2until which day giving charge to the apostles through holy spirit whom he chose, he was taken up;
1:3to whom also he rendered himself living after his suffering, with many evidences, during forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.
1:4And being assembled together, he exhorted them to not separate from Jerusalem, but to remain about for the promise of the father, which he says, You heard of me.
1:5For John indeed immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in holy spirit not after these many days.
1:6They indeed then having come together, asked him, saying, O Lord, is it in this time you restore the kingdom to Israel?
1:7And he said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons which the father put in his own authority.
1:8But you shall receive power of the holy spirit coming upon you. And you will be to me witnesses in both Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.
1:9And having said these things, of their looking, he was lifted up, and a cloud undertook him from their eyes.
1:10And as they were gazing into the heaven at his going, and behold, two men stood by them in white attire,
1:11ones who also said, Men, Galileans, why do you stand looking into the heaven? This Jesus, the one being taken up from you into the heaven, so shall come in which manner you saw him going into the heaven.
1:12Then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount, of the one being called Olive Grove, which is near Jerusalem, sufficing for a Sabbath journey.
1:13And when they entered, they ascended unto the upper room, where were staying both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Jude of James.
1:14These all were attending constantly with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
1:15And in those days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (and was the multitude of names together about a hundred twenty,)
1:16Men, brethren, it was necessary to fulfill this scripture, which the holy spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, the one becoming a guide to the ones seizing Jesus.
1:17For he was counted with us, and obtained a lot of this service.
1:18This one indeed then acquired a place from the wage of iniquity; and being fallen headlong, he split open in the middle, and all his intestines poured out.
1:19And it became known to all the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, so as to call that place, in their own dialect, Akeldama; that is, Place of Blood.
1:20For it has been written in the book of Psalms, Let his property become desolate, and let there not be one dwelling in it! and, May another receive his overseeing.
1:21It is necessary then of the men coming together with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus entered and went forth among us,
1:22beginning from the immersion of John until the day of which he was taken up from us, for one of these to become a witness with us of his resurrection.
1:23And they established two, Joseph the one being called Barsabas, who was called Justus, and Matthias.
1:24And praying, they said, You, O Lord, are a knower of hearts of all, make manifest! whom you chose of these -- the one of the two,
1:25to receive the lot of this service and commission, from of which Judas violated to go unto his own place.
1:26And they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was alloted with the eleven apostles.