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20 Peter then said, ‘This is what King David wrote in the book of Psalms:

    “Let the house that he lived in become empty,
    so that nobody lives in it.”[a]
David also wrote:
    “Let somebody else do the job which he did.” ’[b]

21 Peter then said, ‘Because of this, we must choose another man instead of Judas. That man must have been one of our group all the time that the Lord Jesus was with us. 22 That is, from the time when John was baptizing people until the time when Jesus went up to heaven. He must be someone who saw Jesus become alive again after he died, as we did.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 See Psalms 69:25.
  2. 1:20 See Psalms 109:8.