²⁵ to take the place^[a] in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”^(A)

⁷¹ He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot,^[a] for he, though one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

²⁴ But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.^(A)

¹⁹ After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the gentiles through his ministry.^(A)