Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive

so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

Then John’s disciples came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

by beatings, by imprisonments,
by riots, by labors,
by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,

labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.

The holy

While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, “Three men are here looking for you.

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.

Separate

“Then He said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

Aaron is to present the Levites before the Lord as a presentation offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the Lord’s work.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle

and singled out for God’s good news—

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful

are the feet of those

who announce the gospel of good things!

But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

since the One at work in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in me for the Gentiles.

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

The work

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.

For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher,

No one takes this honor on himself; instead, a person is called by God, just as Aaron was.

General references

Then present the Levites before the Lord, and have the Israelites lay their hands on them.

The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.”