1 Edellisessä kertomuksessani kirjoitin, oi Teofilus, kaikesta, mitä Jeesus alkoi tehdä ja opettaa,
2 hamaan siihen päivään asti, jona hänet otettiin ylös, sittenkun hän Pyhän Hengen kautta oli antanut käskynsä apostoleille, jotka hän oli valinnut,
3 ja joille hän myös kärsimisensä jälkeen moninaisten epäämättömien todistusten kautta osoitti elävänsä, ilmestyen heille neljänkymmenen päivän aikana ja puhuen Jumalan valtakunnasta.
9 Kun hän oli tämän sanonut, kohotettiin hänet ylös heidän nähtensä, ja pilvi vei hänet pois heidän näkyvistään.
10 Ja kun he katselivat taivaalle hänen mennessään, niin katso, heidän tykönänsä seisoi kaksi miestä valkeissa vaatteissa;
12 Silloin he palasivat Jerusalemiin vuorelta, jota kutsutaan Öljymäeksi ja joka on lähellä Jerusalemia, sapatinmatkan päässä.
13 Ja kun he olivat tulleet kaupunkiin, menivät he siihen yläsaliin, jossa he tavallisesti oleskelivat: Pietari ja Johannes ja Jaakob ja Andreas, Filippus ja Tuomas, Bartolomeus ja Matteus, Jaakob Alfeuksen poika ja Simon, kiivailija, ja Juudas Jaakobin poika.
14 Nämä kaikki pysyivät yksimielisesti rukouksessa vaimojen kanssa ja Marian, Jeesuksen äidin, kanssa ja Jeesuksen veljien kanssa.
15 Ja niinä päivinä Pietari nousi veljien keskellä, kun oli väkeä koolla noin sata kaksikymmentä henkeä, ja sanoi:
17 Sillä hän oli meidän joukkoomme luettu ja oli saanut osalleen tämän viran.
18 Hän hankki itsellensä pellon väärintekonsa palkalla, ja hän suistui alas ja pakahtui keskeltä, niin että kaikki hänen sisälmyksensä valuivat ulos.
19 Ja se tuli kaikkien Jerusalemin asukasten tietoon; ja niin sitä peltoa kutsutaan heidän kielellään Akeldamaksi, se on: Veripelloksi.
20 Sillä psalmien kirjassa on kirjoitettuna: 'Tulkoon hänen talonsa autioksi, älköönkä siinä asukasta olko', ja: Ottakoon toinen hänen kaitsijatoimensa'.
21 Niin pitää siis yhden niistä miehistä, jotka ovat vaeltaneet meidän kanssamme kaiken sen ajan, jona Herra Jeesus kävi sisälle ja ulos meidän tykönämme,
23 Ja he asettivat ehdolle kaksi, Joosefin, jota kutsuttiin Barsabbaaksi, lisänimeltä Justukseksi, ja Mattiaan.
26 Ja he heittivät heistä arpaa, ja arpa lankesi Mattiaalle, ja hänet luettiin niiden yhdentoista kanssa apostolien joukkoon.
1 The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2 till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,
3 to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he,] `Ye did hear of me;
5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.`
6 They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, `Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?`
7 and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;
8 but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.`
9 And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;
10 and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel,
11 who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.`
12 Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath`s journey;
13 and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zelotes, and Judas, of James;
14 these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
15 And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)
16 `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,
17 because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,
18 this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,
19 and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,
20 for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.
21 `It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
22 beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.`
23 And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias,
24 and having prayed, they said, `Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two
25 to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;`
26 and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.