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Someone To Take the Place of Judas

12-13 (A) The Mount of Olives was about a kilometer from Jerusalem. The apostles who had gone there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon, known as the Eager One,[a] and Judas the son of James.

After the apostles returned to the city, they went upstairs to the room where they had been staying.

14 The apostles often met together and prayed with a single purpose in mind.[b] The women and Mary the mother of Jesus would meet with them, and so would his brothers. 15 One day there were about 120 of the Lord's followers meeting together, and Peter stood up to speak to them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12,13 known as the Eager One: The Greek text has “Zealot,” a name later given to the members of a Jewish group that resisted and fought against the Romans.
  2. 1.14 met together and prayed with a single purpose in mind: Or “met together in a special place for prayer.”

13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room(A) where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.(B) 14 They all joined together constantly in prayer,(C) along with the women(D) and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.(E)

15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)

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