ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER L CHRIST'S ASCENSION, AND THE ELECTION OF AN APOSTLE IN THE PLACE OF JUDAS. 1 I wrote my first account, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus did and taught, till the day that having given charge to the apostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up; to whom also he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs, being seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to the kingdom of God. And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me; that John baptized indeed with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after a few days. 2 They therefore having come together asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel? And he said to them, It is not your [province] to know the times or seasons which the Father has appointed by his own authority; but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. And having said these words, as they were looking on he was taken up, and a cloud re- ceived him from their sight. And as they looked steadily to heaven while he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing; and they said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand look- ing at heaven? This Jesus taken up from you to heaven shall so come in the manner in which you have seen him go to heaven. 8 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called [the Mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s 202ACTS, I. 203 journey [distant]. And when they came, they went up into the upper room where staid Peter and Jobn, and James and An- drew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the [brother] of James. All these continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. / 4 And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the brothers, said—the multitude together was about a hundred and twenty—Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus; For he was numbered with us, and ob- tained the inheritance of this service. This man therefore pur- chased a field with the price of the wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his bowels were poured out; and this became known to all who lived at Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach, which is Field of blood. For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his dwelling be desolate and let no one dwell in it, and his superin- tendency let another take. It is necessary therefore that one of the men who have gone with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John till the day on which he was taken up from us, should be made with us a witness of his resurrection. 5 And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. And praying, they said, Do thou, Lord, the searcher of all hearts, show which of these two thou hast chosen to take the place of this service and apostleship from which Judas fell by transgression to go to his place. And they cast their lots, and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was num- bered with the eleven apostles. CHAPTER I. THE DAY OF PENTECOST AND ITS BLESSINGS. 1 Anp when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one mind together, And suddenly there came from heaven asound as of a violent wind borne along, and it filled all the204 ACTS, I. house where they were sitting; and there appeared to them di- vided tongues as of fire, and [one] sat on each one of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 2 And there were Jews living at Jerusalem, pious men, of every nation under heaven; and when this sound was [heard], the multitude came together and were astonished, for they each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were astonished and wondered, saying, Are not all these that speak Galileans? And how do we hear each one in our own language in which we were born, Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontrs and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and the Roman strangers, both Jews and prose- lytes, Cretes and Arabs, do we hear them speak in our tongues of the great works of God. And they were all astonished and perplexed, saying one to another, What does this mean? But others mocking said, They are full of sweet wine. 3 But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and attend to my words. For these are not drunk as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day [9 a.m.], but this is what was said by the prophet; In the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and. your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see vis- ions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and upon my male ser- vants and upon my female servants in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show prodigies in heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and acloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the meon into blood, before the great and illustrious day of the Lord comes. And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 4 Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazorman, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know, this man, delivered up by the determin- ate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked, him has God raised