Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Acts 1:14-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15. In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said: (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty:)

16. Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:

17. Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

18. And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out.

19. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

20. For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his bishopric let another take.