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A cropped participant’s hand casts plain lots into a shallow bowl while Peter and John watch in the same upper room.
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Acts 1:21-26

The Lot Fell to Matthias

Witnesses and a New Beginning · Acts 1

Story guide: A hand casts lots for Matthias; the bowl is an artistic reconstruction because the passage does not specify a vessel.

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21Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

22beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.

23And they put forward two: Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

24And after praying, they said, “You, Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen,”

25to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.

26And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

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