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Acts 1:15
New Catholic Bible
Acts 1:15
New Catholic Bible
15 The Choice of Judas’s Successor.[a] In those days, Peter stood up before the assembled brothers, numbering about one hundred and twenty, and said,
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- Acts 1:15 The ministry (diakonia: service) of the apostle (“one who is sent”) appears from the outset as a solidly established institution, and one that is indispensable for the people of God. The apostles are twelve in number, as though to preside over the twelve tribes, i.e., the true Israel (see Acts 26:7), and it is around them that this community of one hundred and twenty (or ten for each apostle) has formed.
