Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ About one hundred and twenty people were gathered together. Peter stood up among them to speak to them.

¹⁶ He said, `My friends and brothers, Judas showed the people where Jesus was so they could take him. The Holy Spirit spoke through king David long ago about Judas before he did it. What was written about him has now happened.

¹⁷ Judas was one of us. He had his part of the work to do.' (

¹⁸ Judas received money for the wrong thing he did. He bought a field with the money and fell on his face. His belly burst open and all his insides came out.

¹⁹ All the people who live in Jerusalem know about this. In their language they named the field Akeldama, which means The Field of Blood.)

²⁰ `The book of Psalms says, "His house must be empty. No one may live in it." And it also says, "Someone else must do his work."