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Acts 1:12-18 New English Translation (NET)

12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).

13. When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

14. All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

15. In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

16. “Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas – who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus –

17. for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.”

18. (Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

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