Bishops(i)
17 For he was numbred with vs, & had obteyned felowship in this ministerie
18 And the same hath nowe purchased a fielde, with the rewarde of iniquitie? And when he was hanged, he burst a sunder in the middes, & all his bowels gusshed out
19 And it is knowen vnto all the dwellers at Hierusalem, in so much that the same fielde is called in their mother tongue, Aceldema, that is to saye, the blood fielde
20 For it is written in ye booke of psalmes: Let his habitation be desert, and no man be dwellyng therein: And his bishopricke let another take
21 Wherfore, of these men which haue companyed with vs, all the tyme that the Lorde Iesus went in and out among vs
22 Begynnyng from the baptisme of Iohn, vnto that same day that he was take vp from vs, must one be ordeyned, to be a witnesse with vs of his resurrection
23 And they appoynted two, Ioseph which is called Barsabas, whose sirname was Iustus, and Matthias
24 And they prayed, saying: Thou Lord which knowest the heartes of all men, shewe whether of these two thou haste chosen
25 That he may take the rowme of this ministerie and Apostleship, from which Iudas by transgression fell, that he myght go to his owne place