The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The Fyrst Chapter.

[illustration]

IN the former trea∣tise [ A] (Deare frende Theophilus) I ha¦ve written of all that Ie∣sus beganne to do & tea∣che / vntyll the daye in the which he was taken vp / after that he thorowe the holy goost / had geven com¦maundementes vnto the Apostles / which he had chosen: to whom also he shewed him selfe alyve / after his passion by many tokens / apperynge vnto them fourty dayes / & speakynge of the kyngdome of god / & gaddered them togeder / and commaunded* 1.1 thē / that they shuld not departe from Ierusa¦lem: but to wayte for y^e promys of the father / wherof ye have herde of me. For Iohn bapti∣sed w^t water: but ye shalbe baptised with the holy goost / & that with in this feawe dayes. When they were come togeder / they axed of him sayinge: Lorde wilt thou at this tyme re∣store agayne y^e kyngdome to Israel? And he sayde vnto them: It is not for you to knowe the tymes / or the seasons which y^e father hath put in his awne power: but ye shall receave

power of the holy goost which shall come on you. And ye shall be witnesses vnto me in Ie∣rusalem / & in all Iewrye and in Samary / and even vnto the worldes ende.

And when he had spoken these thinges / [ B] whyll they behelde / he was takē vp / & a clou∣de receaved him vp out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly vp to heaven as he went / beholde two men stode by them in white apparell / which also sayde: ye men of Galile / why stonde ye gasinge vp into heavē? This same Iesus which is taken vp frō you in to heaven / shall so come / even as ye haue se¦ne him goo into heaven. ⊢

Then returned they vnto Ierusalem from* 1.2 mount olivete / which is nye to Ierusalem / cō¦teyninge a Saboth dayes iorney. And when they were come in / they went vp into a parler / where abode both Peter & Iames / Iohn & An¦drew / Philip & Thomas / Bartlemew & Ma∣thew / Iames the sonne of Alpheus / & Simō zelotes / & Iudas Iames sonne. These all cō∣tinued with one acorde in prayer & supplica∣cion with the wemen and Mary the mother of Iesu / and with his brethren.

✚ And in those dayes Peter stode vp in the [ C] myddes of the disciples & sayde (the noumbre of names that were to gether / were aboute an hondred & twenty) Ye men and brethren / this scripture must have nede ben fulfilled which the holy goost thorow y^e mouth of David spa¦ke before of Iudas / which was gyde to them* 1.3 that tooke Iesus. For he was noūbred with

vs & had obtayned fellouship in this ministra¦cion. And the same hath now possessed a plot of grounde with the rewarde of iniquite / and when he was hanged / brast a sondre in y^e myd∣des / & all his bowels gusshed oute. And it is knowē vnto all the inhabiters of Ierusalem: in so moche that that felde is called in their mother tonge / Acheldama / that is to saye / the bloud felde.

It is written in the boke of Psalmes: his [ D] * 1.4 habitaciō be voyde / and no man be dwellinge therin: and his bisshoprycke let another take.* 1.5 Wherfore of these mē which have cōpanyed with vs / all y^• tyme that the Lorde Iesus wēt in & out amonge vs / begynninge at the bapty¦me of Iohn vnto that same daye that he was taken vp from vs / must one be ordeyned to be are witnes with vs of his resurreccion.

And they appoynted two / Ioseph called Barsabas (whose syr name was Iustus) and Mathias. And they prayed sayinge: thou Lor¦de which knowest the hertes of all mē / shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen that the one maye take the roume of this ministra¦cion / and apostleshippe from the which Iu∣das by transgression fell / that he myght go to his awne place. And they gave forthe their lot¦tes / and the lot fell on Mathias / and he was* 1.6 counted with the eleven Apostles. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  luke .xxiiij. g
• * 1.2

  luke .xxiiij. g
• * 1.3

  psal. xl. c io. xviij. mathew .xxvij. a
• * 1.4

  psalm .lxviij.
• * 1.5

  psal. cviij
• * 1.6

  Mathias