Acts 1 - Israeli Authorized Version

¹ The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Y'shuw`a began both to do and teach,

² Until the day in which He was taken up, after that he through Ruach HaKodesh had given Commandments unto the emissaries whom he had chosen:

³ To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of Elohim:

⁴ And, being assembled together with them, Commanded them that they should not depart from Yerushalayim, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

⁵ For Yochanan truly immersed with water; but ye shall be immersed with Ruach HaKodesh not many days hence.

⁶ When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the Kingdom to Yisrael?

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, after that Ruach HaKodesh is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Yerushalayim, and in all Yhudah, and in Shomron, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

⁹ And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰ And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

¹¹ Which also said, Ye men of Galil, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Y'shuw`a, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

¹² Then returned they unto Yerushalayim from the Mount called Olives, which is from Yerushalayim a Sabbath Day's journey.

¹³ And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Kefa, and Yaakov, and Yochanan, and Andrew, Philip, and Toma, Bar-Talmai, and Mattityahu, Yaakov Ben-Halfai, and Shimon the Zealot, and Yhudah the brother of Yaakov.

¹⁴ These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Miryam the mother of Y'shuw`a, and with his brethren.

¹⁵ And in those days Kefa stood up in the midst of the talmidim, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

¹⁶ Men and brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which Ruach HaKodesh by the mouth of David spake before concerning Yhudah, which was guide to them that took Y'shuw`a.

¹⁷ For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

¹⁸ Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

¹⁹ And it was known unto all the dwellers at Yerushalayim; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Hakal-Dma, that is to say, The field of blood.

²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

²¹ Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Y'shuw`a went in and out among us,

²² Beginning from the immersion of Yochanan, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

²³ And they appointed two, Yosef called Bar-Sabba, who was surnamed Justus, and Mattityahu.

²⁴ And they prayed, and said, Thou, YY , which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

²⁵ That he may take part of this ministry and commission, from which Yhudah by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

²⁶ And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Mattityahu; and he was numbered with the eleven emissaries.