Acts 1:16-26

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,

²⁵That he may take the roume of this ministration and Apostleship, from which Iudas hath gone astray, to goe to his owne place.

²⁶Then they gaue foorth their lottes: and the lotte fell on Matthias, and hee was by a common consent counted with the eleuen Apostles.