Acts 1:8–16

⁸But you will receive power when^* the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the earth.” ⁹And after he^* had said these things, while^* they were watching, he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight. ¹⁰And as they were staring into the sky while^* he was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood by them ¹¹who also said, “Men of Galilee,^d why do you stand there looking^e into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

¹²Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain that is called Olive Grove^f which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.^{g 13}And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying—Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas son of James. ¹⁴All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with^h his brothers.

¹⁵And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and it was a crowd of persons of about one hundred twenty at the same place) and^* said, ¹⁶“Men and brothers, it was necessary that the scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus,