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Matthias

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Every paragraph the index cites under Matthias, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

Paper 192 · Appearances in Galilee

192:0.2From this time on, un­til the apos­tles were dis­persed by the ris­ing tide of per­se­cu­tion, Pe­ter was the gen­er­ally rec­og­nized head of the apos­tolic corps. Je­sus never gave him any such au­thor­ity, and his fel­low apos­tles never for­mally elected him to such a po­si­tion of re­spon­si­bil­ity; he nat­u­rally as­sumed it and held it by com­mon con­sent and also be­cause he was their chief preacher. From now on pub­lic preach­ing be­came the main busi­ness of the apos­tles. Af­ter their re­turn from Gal­i­lee, Matthias, whom they chose to take the place of Ju­das, be­came their trea­surer.

Paper 193 · Final Appearances and Ascension

6. Peter Calls a Meeting

193:6.2Si­mon Pe­ter took it upon him­self to speak for his fel­low apos­tles and made a thrilling re­port of the last meet­ing of the eleven with their Mas­ter and most touch­ingly por­trayed the Mas­ter’s fi­nal farewell and his as­cen­sion dis­ap­pear­ance. It was a meet­ing the like of which had never be­fore oc­curred on this world. This part of the meet­ing lasted not quite one hour. Pe­ter then ex­plained that they had de­cided to choose a suc­ces­sor to Ju­das Is­car­iot, and that a re­cess would be granted to en­able the apos­tles to de­cide be­tween the two men who had been sug­gested for this po­si­tion, Matthias and Jus­tus.

193:6.3The eleven apos­tles then went down­stairs, where they agreed to cast lots in or­der to de­ter­mine which of these men should be­come an apos­tle to serve in Ju­das’s place. The lot fell on Matthias, and he was de­clared to be the new apos­tle. He was duly in­ducted into his of­fice and then ap­pointed trea­surer. But Matthias had lit­tle part in the sub­se­quent ac­tiv­i­ties of the apos­tles.

193:6.4–5 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

193:6.4Soon af­ter Pen­te­cost the twins re­turned to their homes in Gal­i­lee. Si­mon Ze­lo­tes was in re­tire­ment for some time be­fore he went forth preach­ing the gospel. Thomas wor­ried for a shorter pe­riod and then re­sumed his teach­ing. Na­than­iel dif­fered in­creas­ingly with Pe­ter re­gard­ing preach­ing about Je­sus in the place of pro­claim­ing the for­mer gospel of the king­dom. This dis­agree­ment be­came so acute by the mid­dle of the fol­low­ing month that Na­than­iel with­drew, go­ing to Phil­a­del­phia to visit Ab­ner and Laz­a­rus; and af­ter tar­ry­ing there for more than a year, he went on into the lands be­yond Mes­o­po­ta­mia preach­ing the gospel as he un­der­stood it.

193:6.5This left but six of the orig­i­nal twelve apos­tles to be­come ac­tors on the stage of the early procla­ma­tion of the gospel in Je­ru­sa­lem: Pe­ter, An­drew, James, John, Philip, and Mat­thew.

193:6.6Just about noon the apos­tles re­turned to their breth­ren in the up­per cham­ber and an­nounced that Matthias had been cho­sen as the new apos­tle. And then Pe­ter called all of the be­liev­ers to en­gage in prayer, prayer that they might be pre­pared to re­ceive the gift of the spirit which the Mas­ter had prom­ised to send.

Onward

Cited alongside: casting lots