Therefore when there arose a serious dissension and debate with Paul and Barnabus, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue.

Therefore a sharp disagreement arose so that they were separated from one another. And Barnabas, taking along Mark, sailed to Cyprus.

Do all things without grumbling and disputing,

Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter.

He is staying as a guest with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea."

Arise therefore, go down and go with them, with no wavering; for I have sent them."

Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, whose surname is Peter. He is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea. Who arriving, will speak to you.'

And Peter, opening his mouth, said: "In truth I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality.

The word which God sent to the sons of Israel, preaching the good news of peace through Jesus Christ--He being Lord of all--

Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

This [Jesus] God raised on the third day, and granted Him to become visible,

And He commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to testify solemnly that He is the [One] having been appointed by God [to be] Judge of the living and the dead.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.

For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay for some days.

And the Spirit said to me to go with them, without wavering. Now these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man.

'who will speak words to you by which you and all your household shall be saved.'

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

And hearing these things, they remained silent, and [they] glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted even to the Gentiles repentance unto life."

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I shall build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on the earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on the earth will have been loosed in heaven."

And they prayed and said, "You, O Lord, knower of all hearts, show whom You have chosen of these two"

But the Lord said to him, "Go [your way], for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them."

Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of the whole house of my father to be king over Israel forever; and He chose Judah as the kingly [house], and out of the house of Judah [He chose] the house of my father; and among the sons of my father He preferred me, that I should be king over all Israel.

And of all my sons, (for the Lord has given me many sons) He has chosen Solomon my son, to set him on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted [with] the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter [with the gospel] for the circumcised,

and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace which was given to me, they gave me and Barnabas [their] right [hands] of fellowship, that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised;

Men, brothers; it was necessary [for] this Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

But those things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: 'Why did the nations rage, and the people conspired vain things?

And now go, and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.

And the Lord stretched forth His hand to me, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.

So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by [the] word of God.

But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed [they have]: "Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."