1 Edellisessä kirjassani, hyvä Teofilos, kerroin kaikesta siitä, mitä Jeesus teki ja mitä hän opetti, alusta alkaen
2 aina siihen päivään saakka, jona hän Pyhän Hengen voimalla antoi valitsemilleen apostoleille käskynsä, ennen kuin hänet otettiin taivaaseen.
3 Heille hän myös monin kiistattomin todistein osoitti kuolemansa jälkeen olevansa elossa. Hän näyttäytyi heille neljänkymmenen päivän aikana useasti ja puhui Jumalan valtakunnasta.
9 Kun hän oli sanonut tämän, he näkivät, kuinka hänet otettiin ylös, ja pilvi vei hänet heidän näkyvistään.
10 Ja kun he Jeesuksen etääntyessä vielä tähysivät taivaalle, heidän vieressään seisoi yhtäkkiä kaksi valkopukuista miestä.
12 Silloin he lähtivät tuolta vuorelta, jota kutsutaan Öljymäeksi ja joka on lähellä Jerusalemia, sapatinmatkan päässä. He palasivat Jerusalemiin
13 ja menivät siellä siihen taloon, jonka yläkerrasta oli tullut heidän kokoontumispaikkansa: Pietari, Johannes ja Jaakob, Andreas, Filippus, Tuomas, Bartolomeus, Matteus ja Jaakob Alfeuksen poika, Simon Kiivailija ja Juudas Jaakobin poika.
14 He pitivät kaikki yhtä ja rukoilivat lakkaamatta yhdessä joukkoonsa kuuluvien naisten sekä Jeesuksen äidin Marian ja Jeesuksen veljien kanssa.
15 Eräänä päivänä, kun opetuslapsia oli koolla noin satakaksikymmentä, Pietari nousi puhumaan.
17 Hän kuului meidän joukkoomme ja oli saanut osalleen palvelutehtävän niin kuin mekin.
19 -- Tämä tuli yleisesti tiedoksi Jerusalemissa, ja niin se paikka sai heidän kielellään nimen Hakeldama, Veripelto.
21 Siispä on nyt valittava yksi niistä miehistä, jotka ovat kulkeneet kanssamme koko sen ajan, jolloin Herra Jeesus eli ja vaikutti meidän keskuudessamme,
23 Ehdolle pantiin kaksi miestä: Joosef Barsabbas, toiselta nimeltään Justus, sekä Mattias.
26 Sen jälkeen he heittivät miehistä arpaa, ja arpa lankesi Mattiakselle. Näin hänet valittiin ja liitettiin kahdentenatoista apostolien joukkoon.
1 I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,
2 Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:
3 And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:
4 And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:
5 For the baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit, after a little time.
6 So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.
8 But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
9 And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.
10 And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing,
11 And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.
12 Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.
13 And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; 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 son of James.
14 And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
15 And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,
16 My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
17 For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.
18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
19 And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
20 For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.
21 For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.
23 And they made selection of two, Joseph, named Barsabbas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias.
24 And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,
25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
26 And they put it to the decision of chance, and the decision was given for Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.