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So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it." This was to fulfill what the scripture says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots."

for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."

That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea.

But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, only about a hundred yards off.

While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. "This," he said, "is what you have heard from me;

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

"Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus—

for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry."

"For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it'; and ‘Let another take his position of overseer.'

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

But God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One experience corruption.

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him."

And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.