Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census, and incited people to follow him in revolt. He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.