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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 1 BLB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//acts/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</a> > Acts 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/acts/1.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/21.htm" title="John 21">◄</a> Acts 1 <a href="../acts/2.htm" title="Acts 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Prologue<br /><span class="cross">(Luke 1:1-4)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the first account I composed, O Theophilus, concerning all the things that Jesus began both to do and to teach, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>until the day He was taken up, having given orders by <i>the</i> Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering with many proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And being assembled together,<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Or ‘eating together’">a</a></span> He instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father: <span class="red">“That which you heard of Me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Or ‘in’">b</a></span> <i>the</i> Holy Spirit not many days after these.”</span> </p><p class="hdg">The Ascension<br /><span class="cross">(Mark 16:19-20; Luke 24:50-53)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So indeed those having come together were asking Him, saying, “Lord, at this time are you restoring the kingdom to Israel?” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And He said to them, <span class="red">“It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father put in place by His own authority. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and you will be witnesses for Me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to <i>the</i> uttermost part of the earth.”</span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And having said these things, they beholding, He was lifted up, and a cloud hid Him from their eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And as they were looking intently into heaven as He was going, then behold, two men in white apparel stood by them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>who also said, “Men, Galileans, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, having been taken up from you into heaven, will thus come in that manner you beheld Him going into heaven.” </p><p class="hdg">Matthias Replaces Judas</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they returned to Jerusalem from <i>the</i> mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, holding a Sabbath day’s journey.<span class="fn"><a href="#fnc" title="That is, approximately 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer">c</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying, both Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James <i>son</i> of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas <i>son</i> of James. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>All these were steadfastly continuing with one accord in prayer, with <i>the</i> women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And in these days, Peter having stood up in <i>the</i> midst of the brothers, and <i>the</i> number of names was about a hundred twenty together, the same said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Men, brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to have been fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by <i>the</i> mouth of David concerning Judas, the <i>one</i> having become guide to those having arrested Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he was numbered with us, and was allotted a share of this ministry.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(Then indeed this <i>man</i> acquired a field out of <i>the</i> reward of unrighteousness, and having fallen headlong, he burst open in <i>the</i> middle and all his intestines gushed out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“For it has been written in <i>the</i> book of Psalms:</p><p class="indent1stline">‘Let his homestead become desolate,</p><p class="indent2"> and let there be not <i>one</i> dwelling in it,’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnd" title="Psalm 69:25">d</a></span></p><p class="reg"> and,</p><p class="indent1stline">‘Let another take his position.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fne" title="Psalm 109:8">e</a></span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore it behooves the men having accompanied us during all <i>the</i> time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>having begun from the baptism of John until the day in which He was taken up from us, one of these, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was called Justus, and Matthias. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And having prayed, they said, “You Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one of these two You have chosen <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to the own place.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they gave lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnote">Or <i>eating together</i></span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnote">Or <i>in</i></span><br /><A name="fnc"></a><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnote">That is, approximately 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer</span><br /><A name="fnd"></a><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 69:25</span><br /><A name="fne"></a><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 109:8</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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