And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been fasting unto this hour, and the ninth I was praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;

And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

The holy

But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

Separate

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

And Aaron shall offer the Levites as a wave-offering before Jehovah from the children of Israel, and they shall perform the service of Jehovah.

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

(for he that wrought in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also.

The work

And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:

and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth workmen unto his harvest.

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of the nations.

And no one takes the honour to himself but as called by God, even as Aaron also.

General references

And thou shalt bring the Levites before Jehovah; and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.

And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot.