Acts 1

¹The first account I made about all things, O Theophilos (Theophilus), that Yeshua (Jesus) began both to do and to teach, ²until the day on which he was taken up, having given orders through the holy wind/spirit to the apostles whom he chose. ³To them also he presented himself living after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them through forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God. ⁴And being assembled together with them, he ordered them not to depart from Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), but to await the promise of the Father "which you heard from me; ⁵because Yochanan (John) immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the holy wind/spirit after not many of these days."

⁶So they, having come together, were asking him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time that you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" ⁷And he said to them, "It is not yours to know times or seasons which the Father set by his own authority; ⁸but you will receive power when the holy wind/spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) and in all Yehudah (Judea) and Shomron (Samaria) and unto the end of the earth."

⁹And having said these things, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from under their eyes. ¹⁰And as they were gazing into the sky as he was going, behold, two men stood beside them in white garments, ¹¹who also said, "Men, Galileans, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua (Jesus), the one taken up from you into the sky, will so come in the manner in which you saw him going into the sky."

¹²Then they returned to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) from the mount called of Olives (Har haZeitim), which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath's journey away. ¹³And when they entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying — both Kefa (Peter) and Yochanan (John) and Ya'aqov (James) and Andreas (Andrew), Philippos (Philip) and Thomas, Bartholomaios (Bartholomew) and Mattityahu (Matthew), Ya'aqov son of Halfai (James son of Alphaeus) and Shimon the Zealot and Yehudah son of Ya'aqov (Judas son of James). ¹⁴These all were persevering with one accord in prayer, together with the women and Miryam (Mary) the mother of Yeshua (Jesus) and with his brothers.

¹⁵And in those days Kefa (Peter), rising up in the midst of the brothers, said — the crowd of names was together about a hundred and twenty — ¹⁶"Men, brothers, it was necessary for the scripture to be fulfilled which the holy wind/spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Yehudah (Judas), who became a guide to those who arrested Yeshua (Jesus); ¹⁷because he was numbered among us and obtained the share of this service." ¹⁸(This one, then, acquired a field from the wages of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst in the middle, and all his entrails poured out. ¹⁹And it became known to all those dwelling in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), so that that field was called in their own language Hakeldama — that is, Field of Blood.) ²⁰"For it is written in the book of Psalms: 'Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no one dwelling in it,' and: 'Let another take his overseership.' ²¹It is necessary, therefore, that of the men who accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) went in and out among us, ²²beginning from the immersion of Yochanan (John) until the day on which he was taken up from us — that one of these become a witness of his resurrection together with us." ²³And they put forward two, Yosef (Joseph) called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Mattityahu (Matthias). ²⁴And praying, they said, "You, Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one — these two — you chose ²⁵to take the place of this service and apostleship, from which Yehudah (Judas) turned aside to go to his own place." ²⁶And they gave lots for them, and the lot fell on Mattityahu (Matthias), and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.