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**Matthias was specifically not chosen by the Master to be of the original twelve**

Neither was he specifically rejected by the Master. If it was SO out of order, then where is the rebuke by the Lord?

Instead we see the Lord continue to establish the leadership of Peter, who initiated the commissions of the Lord when He spoke Acts 2:38 and 39 to the Jews.

The Lord was with Peter, as he had to be present and laying on hands along with John, in order for God to give the Holy Ghost to the Samaritans (which happened probably a day or more after they believed and were baptized).

He had to be present for the first Gentiles to receive the Holy Ghost.

And the miracles:
Told the lame man, at the gate called Beautiful, “..in the name of Jesus...to rise up and walk”. Acts 3:2-6

Peter, by the Holy Ghost, knew that Ananias and Sapphira were lying, even knowing that Sapphira would receive the same fate as her husband; “..the feet of them that which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out”. (Acts 5:9).

Since we are this close to verse 12, let us go there:

“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people..”. BUT NOT MATTHIAS! (oops, it doesn’t say that, does it)

On with that self absorbed, power crazed, Peter:

The Lord busts him out of jail free.

Some time later, Peter, in an upper chamber, prays, and then turns to a dead woman, and says: “Tabitha, arise”. (Acts 9:40).

**Poor Matthias bore the burden of being the whipping boy at the center of Peter’s effort to do what he had been planning and working for all along: to establish himself as The Christ’s right-hand man and earthly vicar, and sole interpreter of Scripture, which religious power mongers have perpetuated ever since. IMHO.**

Your HUMBLE opinion??? Peter’s effort?? Establish himself??

IMHO, I believe he was just doing as told, either by the Lord directly, or by the scriptures:

When the Lord asked his disciples who he was, and Peter answered, he told Peter (”Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona”)that it was so, and that it was revealed to him by the Father.

Unto which of the disciples did the Lord say: “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen the brethren.”? (Lk 22:32)

Is the real objection of Peter, his words found in Acts 2:38?

Paul taught the same thing. I can go into detail on that, but not tonight. (A safe truck driver must get some needed rest.)