"So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven."

" LORD God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

and can command them in battle, so that your community will not be like sheep without a shepherd."

In the past, even when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle, and the LORD promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler."

O LORD God, you have let me succeed my father as king, even though I am very young and don't know how to rule.

He will protect you as you come and go now and forever.

I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

It was three years later that I went to Jerusalem to obtain information from Peter, and I stayed with him for two weeks.