¹ O Theophilus, I indeed made$ the first account concerning all things which Jesus began both to do$ and to teach,

² till a day of which he was received up, and he commanded through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he chose. {Luk 24:44-49 & Acts 1:3-8 & 1Co 15:7 Jerusalem.}

³ The apostles to whom, he also presented himself as living in many definite-proofs after he suffered on the cross, being seen by them throughout forty days and saying the things concerning the kingdom of God.

⁴ And, assembling together-with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to remain until the promise of the Father, Which you° have heard from me;

⁵ because John indeed immersed$ in water, but you° will be immersed$ in the Holy Spirit after not these many days {i.e., after a few days} . {May 18, 30AD Mount of Olives.}

⁶ Therefore indeed, after they came together, they were asking him, saying, Lord, Are you never$ restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?

⁷ Now he said to them, It is not yours° to know times or seasons, which the Father placed in his own authority.

⁸ But you° will be receiving power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you°, you° will be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the outermost parts of the earth. {Mar 16:19-20 & Luk 24:50-53 & Acts 1:9-12 Olivet, between Jerusalem and Bethany.}

⁹ And he said these things, and while looking at him, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him away from their staring eyes.

¹⁰ And as they were staring at his traveling on into heaven, and behold, two men stood beside them in white apparel;

¹¹ who also said, Men, Galileans! Why are you° standing here, looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you° into heaven will be coming back thus in the manner you° saw him traveling into heaven. {Acts 1:11 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}

¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olives, which is near Jerusalem, holding a Sabbath’s journey {i.e., less than a mile, what was permitted to travel on the Sabbath} .

¹³ And when they entered, they went-up into the upstairs-room; where they were remaining: both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James {Or: brother. See Jude.} .

¹⁴ All these men together-with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and together-with his brethren were persevering, united in prayer and supplication.

¹⁵ And in these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (a crowd of approximately a hundred and twenty names {i.e., people} were in the same place) and he said,

¹⁶ Men, brethren, it was essential for this Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit said beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to the ones who took Jesus,

¹⁷ because he was being numbered together-with us and was allotted the inheritance of this service. {Mat 27:3-10 & Acts 1:18-19.}

¹⁸ (Therefore indeed, this one procured a parcel of ground from the reward of his unrighteousness, and he happened to fall-flat and ruptured in the middle and all his bowels were poured out.

¹⁹ And it became known to all the ones dwelling in Jerusalem; so-then in their own language this place is called Akeldama, that is, The Place of Blood.)

²⁰ For$ it has been written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate and do not let the one be dwelling in it’ {Psa 69:25} and, ‘May a different one take his overseership.’ {Psa 109:8}

²¹ Therefore, it is essential, of the men who went together-with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus entered in and went forth among us,

²² and began from the immersion$ of John, to the day from which he was received up from us; one of these is to become a witness together-with us of his resurrection.

²³ And they stood up two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus and Matthias.

²⁴ And after they prayed, they said, You Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one out-of these two you chose for yourself

²⁵ to receive the inheritance of this service and apostleship from which Judas transgressed, so as to travel on to his own place.

²⁶ And they gave them their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was enumerated together with the eleven apostles. {Pentecost (always Sun.) May 28, 30AD Jerusalem. Pentecost is a transliterated word, G4005, which literal means ‘50th’ as in the 50th day after Passover.}