Acts 1:18-26

¹⁸(This man had bought a piece of land with the price of his treachery; and, falling heavily, his body had burst open, and all his bowels protruded.

¹⁹This became known to everyone living in Jerusalem, so that the field came to be called, in their language, ‘Akeldama,’ which means the ‘Field of Blood.’)

²⁰“For in the book of Psalms,” Peter continued, “it is said — ‘Let his home become desolate, And let no one live in it’; and also — ‘His office let another take.’

²¹Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us —

²²from his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us — someone must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection.”

²³So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias;

²⁴and they offered this prayer — “Lord, who reads all hearts, show which of these two men you have chosen

²⁵to take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place.”

²⁶Then they drew lots between them; and, the lot having fallen to Matthias, he was added to the number of the eleven apostles.