The former book I wrote, O Theophilus, about all those things which our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach began to do and to teach,

until the day when he was taken up, after he had commanded the apostles whom he had chosen by the Ruach haKodesh.

To them he also showed himself alive after he had suffered, by many proofs, during forty days, while he was seen by them, and spoke about the kingdom of Elohim.

And when he ate bread with them, he commanded them not to depart from Urishlim, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard from me.

For Yochanan immersed with water, but you will be immersed with the Ruach haKodesh after not many days.

But they, when assembled, asked him and said to him: Our Master, are you at this time restoring the kingdom to Yisrael?

He said to them, It is not yours to know the time or the times which the Father has set in his own authority.

But when the Ruach haKodesh comes upon you, you will receive power, and you will be witnesses for me in Urishlim and in all Yehuda and also among the Samaritans, and to the end of the earth.

And when he had said these things, while they were looking at him, he was taken up, and a cloud received him, and he was hidden from their eyes.

And while they were gazing into heaven as he was going, two men were found standing by them in white garments,

and saying to them, Men of Galila, why are you standing and gazing into heaven? This Y'shua, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you have seen him go up into heaven.

And afterward they returned to Urishlim from the mountain that is called of Olives, which is beside Urishlim and about seven stadia distant from it.

And after they went in, they went up to the upper room where they were staying: Petros and Yochanan and Ya'akov and Andrawos and Philipos and Toma and Mati and Bar-Tulmay and Ya'akov son of Halfai and Shimon the Zealot and Yehuda son of Ya'akov.

These all were continuing together as one in prayer, with one soul, with the women and with Maryam the mother of Y'shua and with his brothers.

And in those days Shimon Keefa stood up in the middle of the disciples—there was a gathering of people there of about a hundred and twenty—and said:

Men, brothers, it was right that the writing should be fulfilled which the Ruach haKodesh spoke beforehand by the mouth of Dawid concerning Yehuda, who was guide to those who seized Y'shua.

Because he was numbered with us, and he had a portion in this ministry.

This is the one who acquired a field for himself from the wage of sin, and he fell on his face on the ground, and burst open from his middle, and all his insides were poured out.

And this became known to all who dwell in Urishlim, and so that field was called in the language of the country Chaqal Dema, which is its translation Field of Blood.

For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let his dwelling be desolate, and let no dweller be in it; and let another take his service.

It is right therefore that one of these men who were with us all this time in which our Master Y'shua went in and went out among us,

beginning from the immersion of Yochanan until the day he was taken up from us, should be with us a witness of his resurrection.

And they set forward two, Yosip who is called Barshaba, who was named Yustus, and Mathiya.

And when they had prayed, they said: You, Master YHWH, knower of what is in the hearts of all, show which one you have chosen of these two,

that he should receive the lot of the ministry and apostleship from which Yehuda broke away, that he might go to his place.

And they cast lots, and it came up for Matya; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.