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          DASV: Acts 1    

1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about everything
Jesus began to do and teach,
2 until the day he was taken up to heaven; after he had given
instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he
had chosen.
3 To them he also showed himself alive after his suffering
by many proofs, appearing to them over the space of forty days,
and speaking about the kingdom of God.
4 Being assembled together with them, he ordered them not to
leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father,
"which," he said, "you have heard from me.
5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with
the Holy Spirit in just a few days."
6 So when they were gathered together, they asked him, "Lord,
will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 He replied, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that
the Father has set by His own authority.
8 But you will receive power, when the Holy Spirit has come on
you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
9 After he had said these things, as they were watching, he was
lifted up and a cloud concealed him from their sight.
10 While they were still gazing up into heaven while he was
leaving, two men stood by them in white clothes.
11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing gazing up
into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into
heaven will come back in the same way you have seen him go
into heaven."

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called
Olivet, which is near to Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's
journey away.
13 When they had entered the city, they went to an upstairs
room where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew,
Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of
Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
14 With one mind all these continued in prayer, with the
women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with Jesus' brothers.
15 In those days Peter stood up in the middle of the believers
(there was a group of about 120 people gathered there),
and said,
16 "Brothers, it was necessary to fulfill the Scripture,
that the Holy Spirit spoke before through the mouth of David
concerning Judas, who was a guide to those who took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered as one of us, and had his part in this
ministry."
18 Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his unjust
act; and falling headfirst, he burst open in the middle,
and all his insides gushed out.
19 It became known to all the residents of Jerusalem; so that
in their language that field was called Akeldama, that is,
Field of Blood.
20 Peter continued, "For it is written in the book of Psalms,
'Let his house become deserted, and let no one live there,'
and, 'His position let another take.'
21 Now then we must choose one of the men who has accompanied
us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among
us,
22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was
taken up from us, one of these who must also have been a
witness with us of his resurrection."

23 They proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was known as
Justus, and Matthias.
24 They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of
all men, show us which of these two you have chosen
25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which
Judas turned away, that he might go to his own place."
26 They cast lots between them; and the lot fell on Matthias.
So he was counted with the eleven apostles.

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