the Oliveyard, which is near Jerusalem, about a mile off.
001:013 They entered the city, and they went up to the upper room which
was now their fixed place for meeting. Their names were Peter
and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew
and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot,
and Judas the brother of James.
001:014 All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer,
together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus,
and His brothers.
001:015 It was on one of these days that Peter stood up in the midst
of the brethren--the entire number of persons present being
about 120--and said,
001:016 "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled--
the prediction, I mean, which the Holy Spirit uttered by
the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide to those
who arrested Jesus.
001:017 For Judas was reckoned as one of our number, and a share
in this ministry was allotted to him."
001:018 (Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his
wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body
bursting open, he became disembowelled.
001:019 This fact became widely known to the people of Jerusalem,
so that the place received the name, in their language,
of Achel-damach, which means `The Field of Blood.')
001:020 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "`Let his encampment
be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there'; and "`His
work let another take up.'
001:021 "It is necessary, therefore, that of the men who have been with us
all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us--
001:022 beginning from His baptism by John down to the day on which He