18. He bought a parcel of land with the wages of his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out.
19. This became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem, so that the parcel of land was called in their language ‘Akeldama,’ that is, Field of Blood.
20. For it is written in the Book of Psalms:‘Let his encampment become desolate,and may no one dwell in it.’And:‘May another take his office.’
21. Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us the whole time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,
22. beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, become with us a witness to his resurrection.”