Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 1:26
The lot fell upon Matthias. Some have held that the choice of
Matthias was unauthorized and that he was never accepted as an apostle.
The reasons for this view are that he is not named again, and Paul was
finally chosen as an apostle. To this it may be replied: (1) Neither
are more than half the other names in the apostolic band again
mentioned, Thomas, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, for example. (2) Paul was
not an apostle to the Jews, but to the Gentiles, and hence, not one of
the Twelve. (3) There is no hint anywhere in Acts, or elsewhere, that
the selection of Matthias was not recognized. (4) In Acts 6:2 "the
twelve" are spoken of, and he must have been one of "the twelve", for
Paul was not yet converted. These facts show that such speculations as
those referred to above are without foundation.
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Acts 1:26
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