¹ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward; and behold, at the door of the gate were five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

² And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:

³ who say, It is not the time to build houses: this is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.

⁴ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

⁵ And the Spirit of Jehovah fell on me, and said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; and the things that come into your mind, I know them.

⁶ Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and it is the cauldron; but you will I bring forth out of the midst of it.

⁸ Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

⁹ And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

¹⁰ Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the borders of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

¹¹ This shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of it: I will judge you in the borders of Israel;

¹² and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, in whose statutes ye have not walked, neither have done mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

¹³ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

¹⁴ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, [it is] thy brethren, thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, the whole of it, unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, Get you far from Jehovah: unto us is this land given for a possession.

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Although I have removed them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²¹ But as for them whose heart walketh well-pleased with their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

²² And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

²³ And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity; and the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewn me.

¹ I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

² until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

³ to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;

⁴ and, being assembled with [them], commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which [said he] ye have heard of me.

⁵ For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.

⁶ They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord, is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?

⁷ And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

⁸ but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

⁹ And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰ And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

¹¹ who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.

¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called [the mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.

¹³ And when they were come into [the city], they went up to the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude [the brother] of James.

¹⁴ These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with [several] women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

¹⁵ And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names [who were] together [was] about a hundred and twenty,)

¹⁶ Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus;

¹⁷ for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in this service.

¹⁸ (This [man] then indeed got a field with [the] reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

¹⁹ And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)

²⁰ For it is written in [the] book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.

²¹ It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have assembled with us all [the] time in which the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,

²² beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.

²³ And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas, who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

²⁴ And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,

²⁵ to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.

²⁶ And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.