Acts 1

¹ I indeed did the first account concerning everything, O Theophilos¹, which Jesus began to be doing and teaching, ² until which day, having commanded the apostles through the Holy Spirit whom he chose, he was taken up, ³ to whom he also presented himself zoe-living² with many proofs after the [things] he suffered, appearing to them for forty days and saying [things] concerning the kingdom of God; ⁴ and assembling³ with [them] he commanded them to not be departing from Jerusalem, but to await the father's promise which you heard from me; ⁵ because John on the one hand baptized with⁴ water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit after these not many days. ⁶ Indeed therefore, having gathered, they were asking⁵ him saying: Lord, do you restore in this time the kingdom to Israel? ⁷ He said to them, It is not yours to know [the] time or [the] season⁶ which the father has established by his own authority, ⁸ but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to⁷ the end of the earth⁸ . ⁹ And having said these [things], while they were watching he was taken up, and [a] cloud received him from their eyes. ¹⁰ And as they were looking intently into heaven while he was going, behold also two men stood by them in white clothing, ¹¹ and they said: Galileean men, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, the [one] having been taken up from you into heaven, will thus come [to] what place you have beheld him going to heaven. ¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain being called [Mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem having [a] Sabbath's travel. ¹⁵ And when they went in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, who [were] Peter and John and James and Andrew, Phillip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaius and Simon the Zealot and Judas [son]⁹ of James. ¹⁴ These all were persisting with one purpose in prayer with [the] women and Mariam the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

¹⁵ And in these days Peter having stood in [the] midst of the brothers, [the] crowd from report was altogether [about] [a] hundred twenty, said: ¹⁶ Men, brothers, it was necessary the scripture be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas when he became leader of those arresting Jesus, ¹⁷ that he was counted among them and received the portion of this service. ¹⁸ This [one] indeed therefore acquired [a] field from [the] reward¹⁰ of injustice, and having become headlong, he burst apart midway, and all his guts were poured out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, so that this field was called in their own dialect Akeldamach, which is Field of Blood. ²⁰ For it is written in [the] scroll of Psalms¹¹,

Let¹² his habitation become [a] wilderness
And let¹² there not be [any] dwelling in it.

And¹³,

Let¹⁴ another receive his overseership.

²¹ It is therefore necessary from [among] those men having gathered to us in every time with whom the Lord Jesus went in and went out upon us, ²² beginning from the baptism of John until the day which he was received up from us, witnesses of his resurrection with us, [for there] to come one from these. ²³ And two stood, Joseph the [one] being called Barsabbas, who was named Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴ And having prayed they said: You Lord, heart-knower of everyone, reveal which one of these two I should choose ²⁵ to take the place of this service and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to his own place. ²⁶ And he gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was added with the eleven apostles.

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¹means "lover of God"

²from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

³or "eating"

⁴or "in"

⁵EROTAO (ερωταω) "Ask", but more polite, not demanding/begging as is AITEO. Both AITEO and EROTAO occur in John.16:26.

⁶KAIROS (καιρoς ) `opportune time', `proper time', `season'

⁷or "until"

⁸GE "GAY" (γη) "earth", "land" (remember that they didn't understand about the Earth being a planet floating in space yet), sometimes "ground" or "dirt".

⁹or "[brother]"

¹⁰or "treasure"

¹¹Ps.69:25

¹²imperative

¹³Ps.109:8

¹⁴imperative