Acts 1:19-22

Good News Translation

¹⁹All the people living in Jerusalem heard about it, and so in their own language they call that field Akeldama, which means “Field of Blood.”)

²⁰^(A)“For it is written in the book of Psalms,

‘May his house become empty;
may no one live in it.’
It is also written,
‘May someone else take his place of service.’

^21-22^(B)“So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism^[a] until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.”

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