Acts 1:8-24

⁸But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

⁹Now after He said these things, while they were beholding Him, He was lifted up, and a cloud withdrew Him from their sight.

¹⁰And while they looked intently into heaven, while He was going, behold, two men stood along side them in white apparel,

¹¹who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you watched Him go into heaven.”

¹²Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.

¹³And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; both Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹⁴These were continuing with one mind in prayer and petition, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

¹⁵And in those days Peter, rising up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), said,

¹⁶“Men and brothers; it was necessary for this Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

¹⁷‘for he was numbered with us and obtained a portion in this ministry.’ ”

¹⁸(Now this man purchased a field by means of the wages of his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

¹⁹And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood).

²⁰“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘Let his homestead become desolate, and let no one dwell in it’; and, ‘May another take his office of overseer.’

²¹Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us in every time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

²²beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

²³And they nominated two: Joseph who is called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

²⁴And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, knower of all hearts, show whom You have chosen of these two