Acts 1:25

to assume the task ¹  of this service ²  and apostleship from which Judas turned aside ³  to go to his own place.” ⁴ 

1Ch 10:13,14; Ps 109:7; Mt 25:41,46; Mt 26:24; Mt 27:3-5; Joh 6:70,71; Joh 13:27; Joh 17:12; Ac 1:16-21; Ac 1:17,20; 2Pe 2:3-6; Jude 1:6,7

¹ tn Grk “to take the place.”

² tn Or “of this ministry.”

³ tn Or “the task of this service and apostleship which Judas ceased to perform.”

⁴ sn To go to his own place. This may well be a euphemism for Judas’ judged fate. He separated himself from them, and thus separated he would remain.