001:016 "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled— the prediction, I mean, which the Holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.
001:017 For Judas was reckoned as one of our number, and a share in this ministry was allotted to him."
001:018 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his
wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body
bursting open, he became disembowelled.
001:019 This fact became widely known to the people of Jerusalem,
so that the place received the name, in their language,
of Achel-damach, which means `The Field of Blood.')
001:020 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "`Let his encampment
be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there'; and "`His
work let another take up.'
001:021 "It is necessary, therefore, that of the men who have been with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us—
001:022 beginning from His baptism by John down to the day on which He was taken up again from us into Heaven—one should be appointed to become a witness with us as to His resurrection."
001:023 So two names were proposed, Joseph called Bar-sabbas—
and surnamed Justus—and Matthias.
001:024 And the brethren prayed, saying, "Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts
of all, show clearly which of these two Thou hast chosen
001:025 to occupy the place in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas through transgression fell, in order to go to his own place."