Acts 1:18-26 ▼

18 And the same hath nowe purchased a fielde, with the rewarde of iniquitie? And when he was hanged, he burst a sunder in the middes, & all his bowels gusshed out.

19 And it is knowen vnto all the dwellers at Hierusalem, in so much that the same fielde is called in their mother tongue, Aceldema, that is to saye, the blood fielde.

20 For it is written in ye booke of psalmes: Let his habitation be desert, and no man be dwellyng therein: And his bishopricke let another take.

21 Wherfore, of these men which haue companyed with vs, all the tyme that the Lorde Iesus went in and out among vs,

22 Begynnyng from the baptisme of Iohn, vnto that same day that he was take vp from vs, must one be ordeyned, to be a witnesse with vs of his resurrection.

23 And they appoynted two, Ioseph which is called Barsabas, whose sirname was Iustus, and Matthias.

24 And they prayed, saying: Thou Lord which knowest the heartes of all men, shewe whether of these two thou haste chosen,

25 That he may take the rowme of this ministerie and Apostleship, from which Iudas by transgression fell, that he myght go to his owne place.

26 And they gaue foorth their lottes, & the lot fell vpon Matthias, and he was counted with the eleuen Apostles.