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CHAPTER 1.
1 THE former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all
things which Jesus began to do and to teach,
2 Until the day on which, giving commandments by the
Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his
passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the
kingdom of God.
4 And eating together with them, he commanded them,
that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of
the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.
5 For John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.
6 They therefore who were come together, asked him,
saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 But he said to them: It is not for you to know the
times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:
8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost
coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all
Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had said these things, while they looked
on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they were beholding him going up to
heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments.
11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you
looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so
come, as you have seen him going into heaven.
12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that
is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an
upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,
Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the
brother of James.
14 All these were persevering with one mind in prayer
with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
15 In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the
brethren, said: (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and
twenty:)
16 Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be
fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning
Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:
17 Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of
this ministry.
18 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward
of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels
gushed out.
19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say,
The field of blood.
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let
their habitation become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And
his bishopric let another take.
21 Wherefore of these men who have companied with us
all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day
wherein he was taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of
his resurrection.
23 And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who
was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
24 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the
hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship,
from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own
place.
26 And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon
Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
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