Acts 1:6–26

⁶Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷And He said to them, ⁱ“It is not for you to ^jknow times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. ^8kBut you shall receive power ^lwhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and ^myou shall be ³witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and ⁿSamaria, and to the ^oend of the earth.”

Jesus Ascends to Heaven

^9pNow when He had spoken these things, while they watched, ^qHe was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. ¹⁰And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them ^rin white apparel, ¹¹who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, ^swill so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”

The Upper Room Prayer Meeting

^12tThen they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey. ¹³And when they had entered, they went up ^uinto the upper room where they were staying: ^vPeter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and ^wSimon the Zealot; and ^xJudas the son of James. ^14yThese all continued with one ⁴accord in prayer ⁵and supplication, with ^zthe women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with ^aHis brothers.

Matthias Chosen

¹⁵And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the ⁶disciples (altogether the number ^bof names was about a hundred and twenty), and said, ¹⁶“Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, ^cwhich the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, ^dwho became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; ¹⁷for ^ehe was numbered with us and obtained a part in ^fthis ministry.”

^18g(Now this man purchased a field with ^hthe ⁷wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his ⁸entrails gushed out. ¹⁹And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)

²⁰“For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

ⁱ‘Let his dwelling place be ⁹desolate,

And let no one live in it’;

and,

^j‘Let another take his ¹office.’

²¹“Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John to that day when ^kHe was taken up from us, one of these must ^lbecome a witness with us of His resurrection.”

²³And they proposed two: Joseph called ^mBarsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, ⁿwho know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen ^25oto take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.” ²⁶And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.