Acts 1:16-26 "My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ "My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ Judas did enter our number, he did get his allotted share of this our ministry. ¹⁸ With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out — ¹⁹ a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood. ²⁰ Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge. ²¹ Well then, of the men who have been associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² from the baptism of John down to the day when he was taken up from us — of these men one must join us as a witness to his resurrection." ²³ So they brought forward two men, Joseph called Bar-Sabbas (surnamed Justus) and Matthias; ²⁴ and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen ²⁵ to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place." ²⁶ Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, who was assigned his position with the eleven apostles.