使徒行傳第1章

賜聖靈的應許
1提阿非羅啊,我已經作了前書,論到耶穌開頭一切所行所教訓的,
2直到他藉著聖靈吩咐所揀選的使徒,以後被接上升的日子為止。
3他受害之後,用許多的憑據將自己活活地顯給使徒看,四十天之久向他們顯現,講說 神國的事。
4耶穌和他們聚集的時候,囑咐他們說:「不要離開耶路撒冷,要等候父所應許的,就是你們聽見我說過的。
5約翰是用水施洗,但不多幾日,你們要受聖靈的洗。」
耶穌升天
6他們聚集的時候,問耶穌說:「主啊,你復興以色列國就在這時候嗎?」
7耶穌對他們說:「父憑著自己的權柄所定的時候、日期,不是你們可以知道的。
8但聖靈降臨在你們身上,你們就必得著能力,並要在耶路撒冷、猶太全地,和撒馬利亞,直到地極,作我的見證。」
9說了這話,他們正看的時候,他就被取上升,有一朵雲彩把他接去,便看不見他了。

Fritz von Uhde – The Ascension of Christ.(1897)Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, Germany(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn – The Ascension(1636)Alte Pinakothek(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

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    Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino – The Ascension(before 1645)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Ludovico Carracci – The Ascension(1597)Chiesa di Santa Cristina, Bologna(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    г. п. Астравец – Унебаўшэсце.(19th century)(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo – The Ascension(1510~20)Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome, Italy(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Пінскі р-н. – Ascension.(18th century)(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Pietro Perugino: Ascension of Christ(1495~8)Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon France(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    The Limbourg brothers – Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Folio 184r – The Ascension(1412~6)Musée Condé, Chantilly, France(Public Domain, ©Photo. R.M.N. / R.-G. OjŽda Wikimedia Commons)

    Benjamin West – The Ascension(1801)Denver Art Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Tintoretto – Christi Himmelfahrt(1576~81)Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, Italy(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Hans Stiegler – The resurrection of Jesus and his ascension.(18th century)The northern gallery in the Amanduskirche in Beihingen, Germany(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., © Roman Eisele / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 & GFDL ≥ 1.2 Wikimedia Commons)

    Ekiman Polotsk – Ascension.(1743)the Art Gallery of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Andrea Mantegna – The Ascension of Christ(1460~4)Uffizi Gallery, Florence(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Andrea della Robbia, Ascension of Christ, glazed terracotta in the Santuario della Verna, Chiusi.(Public Domain, photo by Gunnar Bach Pedersen, Wikimedia Commons)

    Andrea della Robbia, Ascension of Christ(1465~90)Sante Flora e Lucilla(Santa Fiora)(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., photo by Sailko, Wikimedia Commons)

    Alexander Tarasevich – Ascension.(1679)the book «Rosarium et officium B. V. M.» Vilno.(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Mattheis Störbel – Himmelfahrt Christi(1519)Deutsche Museum Nürnberg(Public Domain, photo by Vitold Muratov, Wikimedia Commons)

    Paesi Bassi – The Ascension(1520)Gemäldegalerie(Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license., photo by Sailko, Wikimedia Commons)

10當他往上去,他們定睛望天的時候,忽然有兩個人身穿白衣,站在旁邊,說:
11「加利利人哪,你們為甚麼站著望天呢?這離開你們被接升天的耶穌,你們見他怎樣往天上去,他還要怎樣來。」

Giotto di Bondone – Ascension(1337)Scrovegni Chapel, Civic Museums of Padua, Italy(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

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    Маларыцкага р-на. МСБК НАН РБ. – Ascension.(1805)(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Orsha Baran – Ascension.(1808)National Art Museum of Belarus.(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Anonymous – The Ascension(6th century)Мініяцюра з «Евангелля Равулы».(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

    Meister des Rabula-Evangeliums – Rabula-Evangelium, Szene: Christi Himmelfahrt(586)Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florenz(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Anonymous – The Ascension, A page from the Bamberg Apocalypse(11th century)Bamberg State Library, Bavaria, Germany(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Andrej Rublëv and Daniil – Himmelfahrt Christi(1408)Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Anonymous – Ascension.(Mid-17th century)Belarusian school. National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Slutsk. RB NHM – Ascension.(17th century)(Public Domain, Catholic.By)

接替猶大職分的人
12有一座山,名叫橄欖山,離耶路撒冷不遠,約有安息日可走的路程。當下,門徒從那裡回耶路撒冷去,
13進了城,就上了所住的一間樓房;在那裡有彼得、約翰、雅各、安得烈、腓力、多馬、巴多羅買、馬太、亞勒腓的兒子雅各、奮銳黨的西門,和雅各的兒子(或譯:兄弟)猶大。
14這些人同著幾個婦人和耶穌的母親馬利亞,並耶穌的弟兄,都同心合意地恆切禱告。
15那時,有許多人聚會,約有一百二十名,彼得就在弟兄中間站起來,說:
16「弟兄們!聖靈藉大衛的口,在聖經上預言領人捉拿耶穌的猶大,這話是必須應驗的。
17他本來列在我們數中,並且在使徒的職任上得了一分。
18這人用他作惡的工價買了一塊田,以後身子仆倒,肚腹崩裂,腸子都流出來。
19住在耶路撒冷的眾人都知道這事,所以按著他們那裡的話給那塊田起名叫亞革大馬,就是「血田」的意思。
20因為詩篇上寫著,說:願他的住處變為荒場,無人在內居住;又說:願別人得他的職分。
21所以,主耶穌在我們中間始終出入的時候,
22就是從約翰施洗起,直到主離開我們被接上升的日子為止,必須從那常與我們作伴的人中立一位與我們同作耶穌復活的見證。」
23於是選舉兩個人,就是那叫做巴撒巴,又稱呼猶士都的約瑟,和馬提亞。
24眾人就禱告說:「主啊,你知道萬人的心,求你從這兩個人中,指明你所揀選的是誰,叫他得這使徒的位分。這位分猶大已經丟棄,往自己的地方去了。」
25【併入上節】
26於是眾人為他們搖籤,搖出馬提亞來;他就和十一個使徒同列。

Peter Paul Rubens – Saint Mathias(1611)Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

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    Workshop of Simone Martini – Saint Mathias(1317~9)MET Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Schelte a Bolswert after Gerard Seghers – S. Mathias(17th century)the tape No.13 of the Princely Waldecksche Hofbibliothek Arolsen(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Hendrik Goltzius – Saint Mathias(1589)Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Anonymous – Saint Matthias, Sacred Heart, Dearborn, Michigan, USA(Public Domain, Marysrosaries)

    Anonymous – St. Matthias (or St. James) – wing or the altar retable (triptych) from Trzebunia.(c.1420)National Museum Kraków(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Theodor Mohme – Apostle Mattias with a hillebard.(1842)the bar counter in Källsjö church.(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., photo by Mats Winbro, Wikimedia Commons)

    Othem kyrka / Othem church, Gotland, Sweden. Paintings showing to the right Saint Matthias.(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., photo by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa), Wikimedia Commons)

    Master E. S. – Apostel Mattias(1466)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    St Matthias from the Baltimore Prayer Book(1888)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Shea, John Gilmary – Saint Matthias, who replaced Judas Iscariot as apostle.(1889)Pictorial Lives of the Saints. New York: Benziger Bros., 1889. Page 108.(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

    Anonymous – Matthias apoftolus(1493)Schedelsche Weltchronik or Nuremberg Chronicle(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)