Acts 1:8-25

⁸But ye will receive power when the Holy Spirit hath come upon you; and ye will be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

⁹And having thus spoken, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰And while they were looking earnestly into heaven as he went up, lo! two men stood by them in white apparel,

¹¹who said, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner in which ye beheld him going into heaven.

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

¹³And when they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were making their abode, namely, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Judas the brother of James.

¹⁴These all continued with one accord in prayer, with women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

¹⁵And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said, (the number of the names together was about one hundred and twenty,)

¹⁶Brethren, it was necessary that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus.

¹⁷For he was numbered among us, and obtained the allotment of this ministry.

¹⁸Now this man purchased a field with the wages of the iniquity; and falling headlong he burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.

¹⁹And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own tongue, Aceldamach, that is, Field of Blood.

²⁰For it is written in the book of Psalms, “Let his habitation be made desolate, and let no one dwell therein;” and, “Let another take his office.”

²¹Of these men, therefore, who accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

²²from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us, must one be made a witness with us of his resurrection.

²³And they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

²⁴And they prayed saying, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which of these two thou hast chosen

²⁵to take the part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell away, that he might go to his own place.