1The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Yeshua began both to do and to teach, 2until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen: 3to whom he also showed himself alive after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God: 4and, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, you heard from me: 5for John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 6They therefore, when they had come together, asked him, saying, Lord, do you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? 7And he said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father has set within his own authority. 8But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa and Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth. 9And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10And while they were looking steadfastly into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11who also said, You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? this Yeshua, who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you saw him going into heaven. 12Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. 13And when they had come in, 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 the son of Alphæus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14These all with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Yeshua, and with his brothers. 15And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty), 16Brothers, it was necessary that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Yeshua. 17For he was numbered among us, and received his portion in this ministry. 18(Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out. 19And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so that in their language that field was called Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.) 20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be made desolate, And let no man dwell in it: and, His office let another take. 21Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Yeshua went in and went out among us, 22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection. 23And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. 24And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which of these two you have chosen, 25to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place. 26And they cast lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.