Acts 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now this man obtained a piece of land with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery and wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle [of his body] and all his intestines poured forth.

American Standard Version (1901)

(Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Common English Bible

In fact, he bought a field with the payment he received for his injustice. Falling headfirst, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines spilled out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And this man certainly possessed an estate from the wages of iniquity, and so, having been hanged, he burst open in the middle and all his internal organs poured out.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out.

Acts 1:18 Cross References

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol, for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Zechariah 11:13

Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.

Numbers 22:17

for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.”

Numbers 22:7

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand, and they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.

Matthew 25:15

to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. At once