Acts 1:11-18

11The men said to the apostles, ‘You men from Galilee, you should not still be standing here and looking up into the sky. God has taken Jesus into heaven. You saw the way that Jesus went up to heaven. One day, he himself will return in the same way.’

12Then the apostles left the Mount of Olives. They returned to Jerusalem. This was a walk of about 1 kilometre.

13When the apostles arrived back in Jerusalem, they went to their room. The room where they were staying was upstairs. Those apostles were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; also James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

14All these apostles often met together to pray. Mary who was Jesus' mother, other women and Jesus' brothers also met with them.

15One day, about 120 people who believed in Jesus were meeting together. Peter stood up and he said to them,

16‘My friends, long ago, the Holy Spirit gave King David a message to speak from God. He spoke about the things that Judas would do. Judas was the one who showed the soldiers how to catch Jesus. These things had to happen in the way that David wrote in the Bible long ago.

17Judas belonged to our group of disciples. Jesus chose him to work together with us.’

18Judas received some money for the bad thing that he did. He bought a field with that money. But he fell down in that field and he died. His body broke open and the inside parts of his body poured out.