^25 (A)to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”

² If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are ^(A)the ^[a]seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

⁵ Through Him ^(A)we have received grace and apostleship for ^(B)obedience to the faith among all nations ^(C)for His name,

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, ^(A)“Did I not choose you, the twelve, ^(B)and one of you is a devil?” ⁷¹ He spoke of ^(C)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would ^(D)betray Him, being one of the twelve.

⁸ (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the ^(A)circumcised ^(B)also ^(C)worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),

¹⁶ “Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, ^(A)which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, ^(B)who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; ¹⁷ for ^(C)he was numbered with us and obtained a part in ^(D)this ministry.”

^18 (E)(Now this man purchased a field with ^(F)the ^[a]wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his ^[b]entrails gushed out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)

²⁰ “For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

and,

²¹ “Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

¹² While I was with them ^[a]in the world, ^(A)I kept them in ^[b]Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and ^(B)none of them is ^[c]lost ^(C)except the son of ^[d]perdition, ^(D)that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

²⁴ The Son of Man indeed goes just ^(A)as it is written of Him, but ^(B)woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! ^(C)It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”