Acts 1

Chapter 1

Introduction

¹The first account I ¹composed, ^aTheophilus, about all that Jesus ^bbegan to do and teach,

²until the day when He ^awas taken up to heaven, after He ^bhad ¹by the Holy Spirit given orders to ^cthe apostles whom He had ^dchosen.

³To ¹these ^aHe also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of ^bthe things concerning the kingdom of God.

⁴¹Gathering them together, He commanded them ^anot to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for ^2bwhat the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;

⁵for ^aJohn baptized with water, but you will be baptized ¹with the Holy Spirit ^2bnot many days from now.”

⁶So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, ^ais it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which ^athe Father has fixed by His own authority;

⁸but you will receive power ^awhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be ^bMy witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and ^cSamaria, and even to ^dthe remotest part of the earth.”

The Ascension

⁹And after He had said these things, ^aHe was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

¹⁰And as they were gazing intently into ¹the sky while He was going, behold, ^atwo men in white clothing stood beside them.

¹¹They also said, “^aMen of Galilee, why do you stand looking into ¹the sky? This Jesus, who ^bhas been taken up from you into heaven, will ^ccome in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

The Upper Room

¹²Then they ^areturned to Jerusalem from the ^1bmount called ²Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a ³Sabbath day’s journey away.

¹³When they had entered the city, they went up to ^athe upper room where they were staying; ^bthat is, Peter and John and ¹James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and ^cJudas the ²son of James.

¹⁴These all with one mind ^awere continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with ^bthe women, and Mary the ^cmother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

¹⁵¹At this time Peter stood up in the midst of ^athe brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty ²persons was there together), and said,

¹⁶“Brethren, ^athe Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, ^bwho became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

¹⁷“For he was ^acounted among us and received his share in ^bthis ministry.”

¹⁸(Now this man ^aacquired a field with ^bthe price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

¹⁹And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in ^atheir own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

²⁰“For it is written in the book of Psalms,

‘^aLet his homestead be made desolate,

And let no one dwell in it’;

and,

‘^bLet another man take his ¹office.’

²¹“Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that ^athe Lord Jesus went in and out ¹among us—

^22abeginning ¹with the baptism of John until the day that He ^bwas taken up from us—one of these must become a ^cwitness with us of His resurrection.”

²³So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and ^aMatthias.

²⁴And they ^aprayed and said, “You, Lord, ^bwho know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen

²⁵to ¹occupy ^athis ministry and ^bapostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

²⁶And they ^1adrew lots for them, and the lot fell ²to ^bMatthias; and he was ³added to ^cthe eleven apostles.