Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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I.—The Church and The Jews.
Doings of the Apostles Peter and John.
note
1 The first account which I drew up, Theophilus,
dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from
the very first,
2 down to that day on which he was taken up to
Heaven, after he had, by the help of the Holy Spirit, given instructions
to the Apostles whom he had chosen.
3 With abundant
proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his
death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days,
and speaking of all that related to the Kingdom of God. note
4 And
once, when he had gathered them together, he charged them
not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the fulfilment of
the Father's promise—“that promise,” he said, “of which
you have heard me speak;
5 for, while John baptized with
water, you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit before many
days have passed.”
note
6 So, when the Apostles had met together, they
asked Jesus this question—
“Master, is this the time when you intend to re-establish the
Kingdom for Israel?”
7 His answer was:
“It is not for you to know times or hours, for the Father
has reserved these for his own decision;
8 but you shall receive
power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you,
and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but
throughout Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth.”
9 No sooner had Jesus said this than he was caught up before
their eyes, and a cloud received him from their sight.
10 While
they were still gazing up into the heavens, as he went,
suddenly two men,
11 clothed in white, stood beside them, and
said:
“Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into
the heavens? This very Jesus, who has been taken from you
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into the heavens, will come in the very way in which you have
seen him go into the heavens.”
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12 Then the Apostles returned to Jerusalem from
the hill called Olivet, which is about three quarters
of a mile from the city.
13 When they reached Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs
room, where they were staying. There were there Peter,
John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew
and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot,
and Judas the son of James.
14 They all united in devoting
themselves to Prayer, and so did some women, and Mary, the
mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
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15 About this time, at a meeting of the Brethren,
when there were about a hundred and twenty
present, Peter rose to speak.
16 “Brothers,” he said, “it was necessary that the prediction
of Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by
the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men
that arrested Jesus,
17 for he was one of our number and had his
part allotted him in this work of ours.”
18 (This man had bought a piece of land with the price of his
treachery; and, falling heavily, his body had burst open, and all
his bowels protruded.
19 This became known to every one living
in Jerusalem, so that the field came to be called, in their language,
‘Akeldama,’ which means the ‘Field of Blood.’)
20 “For in the Book of Psalms,” Peter continued, “it is said—
‘Let his dwelling become desolate,
And let no one live in it’;
and also—
‘His office let another take.’ note
21 Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the
time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us—
22 from his baptism by John down to that day on which he was
taken from us—some one must be found to join us as a
witness of his resurrection.”
23 So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabas, whose
other name was Justus, and Matthias;
24 and they offered this
prayer—
“O Lord, who readest all hearts, show
which of these two men thou hast chosen to
take the place in this apostolic work,
25 which
Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper
place.” note
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26 Then they drew lots between them; and, the lot having fallen
on Matthias, he was added to the number of the eleven
Apostles.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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