1 The first account, indeed, I made about all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, VP
2 until [the] day [in] which, having commanded through [the] Holy Spirit the apostles whom He chose, He was taken up, VP
3 to whom also He presented Himself alive after His suffering, in many convincing proofs, through forty days being seen by them and speaking the things about the kingdom of God. VP
4 And being assembled together, He instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father: “That which you⁺ heard of Me; VP
5 for John indeed baptized in water, but you⁺ will be baptized in [the] Holy Spirit not many days after these.” VP
6 Therefore indeed those having come together were questioning Him, saying, “Lord, at this time do You restore the kingdom to Israel?” VP
7 And He said to them, “It is not yours⁺ to know times or seasons that the Father set in [His] own authority. VP
8 But you⁺ will receive power [at] the Holy Spirit having come upon you⁺, and you⁺ will be My witnesses, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to [the] end of the earth.” VP
9 And having said these things, [in] their looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him from their eyes. VP
10 And as they were looking intently into heaven [in] His going, then behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, VP
11 who also said, “Men, Galileans, why do you⁺ stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, having been taken up from you⁺ into heaven, will thus come in that manner you⁺ saw Him going into heaven.” VP
12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from [the] mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, holding a Sabbath’s journey. VP
13 And when entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, both Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas [son] of James. VP
14 All these were steadfastly continuing with one accord in prayer, with [the] women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. VP
15 And in these days, Peter, having risen up in [the] midst of the brothers, said (and [the] multitude of names at the same [place] was about a hundred twenty), VP
16 “Men, brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to have been fulfilled that the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand through [the] mouth of David about Judas, the [one] having become guide to those having arrested Jesus. VP
17 For he was numbered among us and was allotted the share of this ministry.” VP
18 (Then indeed this [man] acquired a field out of [the] reward of unrighteousness, and having fallen headlong, he burst open in [the] middle, and all his intestines poured out. VP
19 And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; therefore that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) VP
20 “For it has been written in [the] book of Psalms: ‘May his homestead become desolate, and let there be no [one] dwelling in it,’ and, ‘May another take his oversight.’ VP
21 Therefore it is necessary for the men having accompanied us in all [the] time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, VP
22 having begun from the baptism of John until the day in which He was taken up from us, one of these, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.” VP
23 And they set two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was called upon [as] Justus, and Matthias. VP
24 And having prayed, they said, “You, Lord, knower of [the] heart of all, show which one of these two You chose VP
25 to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to [his] own place.” VP
26 And they gave lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. VP