Bible / Acts
Acts 1
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, CCC
2 Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. CCC
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God. CCC
4 And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.
5 For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.
6 They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? CCC
7 But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power: CCC
8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. CCC
9 And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. CCC
10 And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. CCC
11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him going into heaven. CCC
12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day’s journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James.
14 All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. CCC
15 In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):
16 Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus: Fathers
17 Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
18 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out.
19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his bishopric let another take.
21 Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his resurrection. CCC
23 And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
24 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.
26 And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.
Read the Catechism
- CCC 126 “We can distinguish three stages in the formation of the Gospels: 1. the life and teaching of Jesus. the Church holds firmly…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 126 “We can distinguish three stages in the formation of the Gospels: 1. the life and teaching of Jesus. the Church holds firmly…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 659 “So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 672 “Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 672 “Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by…”
- CCC 730 “At last Jesus' hour arrives: he commends his spirit into the Father's hands 118 at the very moment when by his death…”
- CCC 735 “He, then, gives us the "pledge" or "first fruits" of our inheritance: the very life of the Holy Trinity, which is to…”
- CCC 857 “The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways: - she was and remains built on "the…”
- CCC 1287 “This fullness of the Spirit was not to remain uniquely the Messiah's, but was to be communicated to the whole messianic people.…”
- CCC 1556 “To fulfil their exalted mission, "the apostles were endowed by Christ with a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming upon them,…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 333 “From the Incarnation to the Ascension, the life of the Word incarnate is surrounded by the adoration and service of angels. When…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 333 “From the Incarnation to the Ascension, the life of the Word incarnate is surrounded by the adoration and service of angels. When…”
Read the Catechism
- CCC 726 “At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother…”
- CCC 1310 “To receive Confirmation one must be in a state of grace. One should receive the sacrament of Penance in order to be…”
- CCC 2617 “Mary's prayer is revealed to us at the dawning of the fullness of time. Before the incarnation of the Son of God,…”
- CCC 2623 “On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit of the Promise was poured out on the disciples, gathered "together in one place." While…”
- CCC 2673 “In prayer the Holy Spirit unites us to the person of the only Son, in his glorified humanity, through which and in…”
Read the Fathers
“For he was numbered with us:”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
Read the Catechism
- CCC 523 “St. John the Baptist is the Lord's immediate precursor or forerunner, sent to prepare his way. "Prophet of the Most High", John…”
- CCC 535 “Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan. John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of…”
- CCC 642 “Everything that happened during those Paschal days involves each of the apostles - and Peter in particular - in the building of…”
- CCC 995 “To be a witness to Christ is to be a "witness to his Resurrection," to "[have eaten and drunk] with him after…”
A modern English Catholic translation will be added once its publisher grants permission.