12. Then the apostles went back to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is about a kilometre away from the city.
13. They entered the city and went up to the room where they were staying: Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Patriot, and Judas son of James.
14. They gathered frequently to pray as a group, together with the women and with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
15. A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about 120 in all, and Peter stood up to speak.
16. “My fellow-believers,” he said, “the scripture had to come true in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, made a prediction about Judas, who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus.
17. Judas was a member of our group, for he had been chosen to have a part in our work.”
18. (With the money that Judas got for his evil act he bought a field, where he fell to his death; he burst open and all his bowels spilt out.
19. All the people living in Jerusalem heard about it, and so in their own language they call that field Akeldama, which means “Field of Blood”.)
20. “For it is written in the book of Psalms:‘May his house become empty;may no one live in it.’It is also written:‘May someone else take his place of service.’
21-22. “So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus travelled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.”
23. So they proposed two men: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas (also known as Justus), and Matthias.