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After the
Ascension of Our Lord, His followers at Jerusalem chose a replacement for
Judas. The man chosen was Matthias, "and he was numbered with the Eleven."
Apart from the information given in the first chapter of Acts, nothing is
known of him. It would be a mistake to conclude from this that he was a
failure and a bad choice as an apostle. We know as much as we do about Peter
and Paul because Luke (a travelling companion of Paul) wrote extensively
about them. About most of the other apostles (those belonging to the
original twelve and later ones like Matthias) we know little after Pentecost
on an individual basis.
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