Acts 1:12-24

¹²Then returned they vnto Hierusalem from the mount that is called the mount of Oliues, which is neere to Hierusalem, being from it a Sabbath daies iourney.

¹³And when they were come in, they went vp into an vpper chamber, where abode both Peter and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartlemew, and Matthewe, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Iudas Iames brother.

¹⁴These all continued with one accorde in prayer and supplication with the women, and Marie the mother of Iesus, and with his brethren.

¹⁵And in those dayes Peter stoode vp in the middes of the disciples, and sayde (nowe the nomber of names that were in one place were about an hundreth and twentie.)

¹⁶Yee men and brethren, this scripture must needes haue beene fulfilled, which the holy Ghost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas, which was guide to them that tooke Iesus.

¹⁷For hee was nombred with vs, and had obteined fellowship in this ministration.

¹⁸He therefore hath purchased a field with the reward of iniquitie: and when he had throwen downe himselfe headlong, hee brast asunder in the middes, and all his bowels gushed out.

¹⁹And it is knowen vnto all the inhabitants of Hierusalem, in so much, that that field is called in their owne language, Aceldama, That is, the field of blood.

²⁰For it is written in the booke of Psalmes, Let his habitation be void, and let no man dwel therein: also, Let another take his charge.

²¹Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs, all the time that the Lord Iesus was conuersant among vs,

²²Beginning from the baptisme of Iohn vnto the day that hee was taken vp from vs, must one of them bee made a witnesse with vs of his resurrection.

²³And they presented two, Ioseph called Barsabas, whose surname was Iustus, and Matthias.

²⁴And they praied, saying, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen,