20 “For it is written in the book of Psalms,

‘Let his residence become deserted,
    and let there be no one to live in it,’[a]

and,

‘Let another person take his position.’[b]

21 Therefore it is necessary for one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us—one of these men must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:20 A quotation from Ps 69:25
  2. Acts 1:20 A quotation from Ps 109:8