Acts 1:18-26 ▼

18 (This one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst apart in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

19 and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that this place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

20 For it has been written in [the] Scroll of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and let another take his oversight.

21 It is necessary, therefore, of the men who went with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

22 beginning from the immersion of John, to the day in which He was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of His resurrection.”

23 And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias,

24 and having prayed, they said, “You, LORD, who are knowing the heart of all, show which one You chose of these two,

25 to receive the share of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, fell, to go on to his proper place”;

26 and they gave their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.