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ALAS
Would you be so kind to show where in this Paul was called when he did not exist in this chapter!
Have you ever felt so good about something that you let the feeling carry you away and you did something that perhaps you shouldn't have or maybe took a bit more authority upon your own shoulders than you should have? Well, that seems to be what happened to the eleven remaining Apostles. After they had seen Jesus ascend up into heaven. Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James, seem to have taken things into there own hands. Instead of going to the Lord in prayer and saying, Lord, we are one Apostle short, would You let us have a twelfth? They instead, choose two from amongst themselves, and then went to the Lord in prayer saying: "Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen". Then they flipped a coin so to speak, expecting the Lord to choose between only these two and let them know by the sign of heads or tails, which would replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. Of course as we will see later in the Book of Acts, the Lord had another in mind to replace Judas the traitor.
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Acts 1
[Jesus ministers for forty days after his resurrection—Kingdom to be restored to Israel at a later time—The Twelve to bear witness in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth—Jesus ascends into heaven—Matthias chosen to fill the vacancy in the Twelve.]
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Stay around as we go through the book of Acts and we will come to the time that Saul is choosen.