Acts 1:18-26

¹⁸And the same hath now possessed a plot of grounde with the rewarde of iniquite and when he was hanged brast a sondre in the myddes and all his bowels gusshed oute.

¹⁹And it is knowe vnto all the inhabiters of Ierusalem: in so moche that that felde is called in their mother tonge Acheldama that is to saye the bloud felde.

²⁰It is written in the boke of Psalmes: His habitacion be voyde and no man be dwellinge therin: and his bisshoprycke let another take.

²¹Wherfore of these me which have companyed with vs all the tyme that the Lorde Iesus went in and out amonge vs

²²begynninge at the baptyme of Iohn vnto that same daye that he was taken vp from vs must one be ordeyned to be are witnes with vs of his resurreccion.

²³And they appoynted two Ioseph called Barsabas (whose syr name was Iustus) and Mathias.

²⁴And they prayed sayinge: thou Lorde which knowest the hertes of all me shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen

²⁵that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion and apostleshippe from the which Iudas by transgression fell that he myght go to his awne place.

²⁶And they gave forthe their lottes and the lot fell on Mathias and he was counted with the eleven Apostles.