"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

The holy

So the Spirit said to Peter, who was pondering over the vision, "There are three men looking for you!

They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia;

But all these effects are produced by one and the same Spirit, apportioning them severally to each individual as he pleases.

Separate

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

And how can men preach unless they are sent? ??as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

(for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised),

and transmit the instructions I gave you in presence of many witnesses to trustworthy men, that they may be competent to teach others.

The work

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

thence they sailed for Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest."

After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

General references

The Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join that chariot."