Acts 1:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 This became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem, so that the parcel of land was called in their language ‘Akeldama,’ that is, Field of Blood. 20 For it is written in the Book of Psalms:
‘Let his encampment become desolate,
and may no one dwell in it.’
And:
‘May another take his office.’(A)
21 Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us the whole time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,
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