Acts 1:8–16

⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;^o and you will be my witnesses^p in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,^q and to the ends of the earth.”^r

⁹After he said this, he was taken up^s before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^t stood beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,”^u they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^v in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

¹²Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem^w from the hill called the Mount of Olives,^x a Sabbath day’s walk^c from the city. ¹³When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room^y where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.^{z 14}They all joined together constantly in prayer,^a along with the women^b and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.^c

¹⁵In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) ¹⁶and said, “Brothers and sisters,^dd the Scripture had to be fulfilled^e in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas,^f who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus.