Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

"For he is the Stone, cast aside by you builders, which has become the head stone of the corner.

"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.

"He is staying as a guest with Simon, a tanner, whose house is near the sea."

"For it has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

and as the harbor was ill adapted for winter quarters, the majority advised putting out to sea from thence, to see whether they could get to Phoenix and winter there, a harbor on the coast of Crete facing northeast and southeast.

"But we must be cast upon a certain island."

They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.