New Testament · Gospels and Acts

Acts chapter 1

In my , , I wrote about everything began doing and teaching,right up until the day he was to heaven. Before that, through , he had given instructions to the he had chosen.After his , he showed himself alive to these same people with many , appearing to them over a period of and talking with them about the .While he was , he told them, “Don’t leave yet. Wait here for what promised — the thing I told you about. people in water, but in just a few days, you will be submerged in .”So when they had all gathered together, they asked him, “, is this the time you’re going to ?”He said to them, “It’s not for you to know the that the Father has set by his own .But you will receive when the Breath of God comes on you, and you will be my in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and all the way to .”After he said this, he was right before their eyes, and a took him out of their sight.While they were staring up at the sky as he went, suddenly stood right there with them.They said, “, why are you standing here looking up at the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will you’ve seen him go into heaven.”Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the , which is from the city.When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying — Peter, John, James, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus, , and Judas son of James.They were all and , along with , including Mary the mother of Jesus, and .During those days, Peter stood up among the — a group of about people — and said,“Brothers and sisters, the that the Breath of God spoke long ago through ’s mouth about , who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus.He was one of our number and had been given his share in this .”(Now Judas had used the money he got for his to buy a field, and there he , his body burst open, and all his intestines spilled out.Everyone living in Jerusalem heard about this, so they named that field in — which means ‘Field of Blood.’)Peter continued, “It’s written in the book of : ‘Let his place be deserted; let no one live there,’ and, ‘Let someone else take over his .’So we need to choose someone who has been with us the entire time that was living and working among us —from the time John was all the way through to the day Jesus was taken up from us. One of these men must join us as a .”So they proposed two men: Joseph called (who was also known as Justus), and .Then they prayed, “, . Show us which of these two you have chosento take over this as an emissary — the position that .”Then they , and the lot fell to Matthias. So he was added to .