And now thus shall you say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord Almighty, I took you from the sheepfold, that you should be a prince over My people, over Israel.

He chose David also His servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

So he tended them in the innocence of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Now as He was walking alongside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Then He said to them, "Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And arising, he followed Him.

And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak.

And He said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, to them that provoke Me; who have provoked Me, they and their fathers to this day.

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord.

Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

And you are witnesses of these things.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

For we can do none other but to speak the things which we saw and heard.

"Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life."

But Peter and the apostles answered, and said: "We must obey God rather than men.

Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.