Acts 1:14–26

¹⁴these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

¹⁵And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,) ¹⁶‘Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus, ¹⁷because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration, ¹⁸this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth, ¹⁹and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood, ²⁰for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.

²¹‘It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.’ ²³And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias, ²⁴and having prayed, they said, ‘Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two ²⁵to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;’ ²⁶and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

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