For he was numbered with us. — Literally, he had been numbered.
Had obtained part of this ministry. — Better, the portion, or inheritance. The Greek has the article, and the noun (cleros) is one which afterwards acquired a special half-technical sense in the words, clerus, clericus, “clerk,” “clergy.” In 1 Peter 5:3, as being “lords over the heritage,” we find it in a transition sense. (See Note on Acts 1:25.)