Acts 1:14–26

¹⁴These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with several women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

¹⁵And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names who were together was about a hundred and twenty,) ¹⁶Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus; ¹⁷for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in this service. ¹⁸(This man then indeed got a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.) ²⁰For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership. ²¹It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have assembled with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection. ²³And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas, who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen, ²⁵to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place. ²⁶And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.