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Waiting for the promise of the Father

¹Theophilus, the first book I composed told of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, ²until the day he was taken up. Before that, through the Holy Spirit, he had given orders to the apostles he had chosen. ³To them as well he had shown himself alive after he suffered, with many clear proofs, as for forty days he let them see him and told them about the kingdom of God. ⁴As he shared a meal with them, he charged them not to go away from Jerusalem but to wait there for what the Father had promised: “the promise you heard about from me.^{a 5}For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit before many days have passed.”

Jesus is taken up

⁶When they had gathered, they kept asking him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷He answered them, “Times and seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority are not yours to know. ⁸But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive power, and you will bear witness to me in Jerusalem, through all Judea and Samaria, and out to the farthest end of the earth.” ⁹With these words said, he was lifted up as they watched, and a cloud received him, so that their eyes could no longer see him. ¹⁰As he went, they kept their eyes fixed on the sky, and all at once two men dressed in white were there beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why stand there gazing up at the sky? This Jesus has been taken up from you into heaven, and he will come in the very way you saw him leave for heaven.”

Praying together in the upper room

¹²Then they went back to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives. It lies close to the city, about half a mile away. ¹³Back in the city, they climbed to the upstairs room where they had been lodging. Peter was there, with John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.^{b 14}All of these were devoted to prayer and of one mind in it. With them were the women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Matthias joins the apostles

¹⁵In those days Peter rose to speak among the brothers and sisters, a crowd of about 120 people gathered in one place. ¹⁶“Brothers and sisters, what the Holy Spirit foretold in Scripture by the mouth of David had to come true. He spoke about Judas, who led the way for those who seized Jesus. ¹⁷Judas was counted as one of us, and this ministry was given to him as his portion.^c

¹⁸(This man came to own a field, paid for with what he earned by his crime. Falling headfirst, he split open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹This became common knowledge among all who lived in Jerusalem, and so that piece of land came to be known in their own language as Hakeldama, which means Field of Blood.) ²⁰For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘May his home become a ruin, with no one living in it,’ and, ‘Let someone else take over his post.’ ²¹So we need one of the men who kept company with us all through the time the Lord Jesus came and went among us, ²²from the day John baptized up to the day he was taken from us. One of these must join us as a witness to his resurrection.” ²³They proposed two men, Joseph who was called Barsabbas and was also known as Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And they prayed, “Lord, you who know the hearts of all people, make plain which one of these two is your choice ²⁵to fill the place in this ministry and apostleship that Judas deserted to go to his own place.”^{d 26}They drew lots for the two, the lot fell on Matthias, and from then on he was counted with the eleven apostles.