Acts 1:18-26 ▼

18 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he became disembowelled.

19 This fact became widely known to the people of Jerusalem, so that the place received the name, in their language, of Achel-damach, which means 'The Field of Blood.')

20 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'Let his encampment be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there'; and "'His work let another take up.'

21 "It is necessary, therefore, that of the men who have been with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us--

22 beginning from His baptism by John down to the day on which He was taken up again from us into Heaven--one should be appointed to become a witness with us as to His resurrection."

23 So two names were proposed, Joseph called Bar-sabbas--and surnamed Justus--and Matthias.

24 And the brethren prayed, saying, "Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all, show clearly which of these two Thou hast chosen

25 to occupy the place in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas through transgression fell, in order to go to his own place."

26 Then they drew lots between them. The lot fell on Matthias, and a place among the eleven Apostles was voted to him.