Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger,

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

The holy

As Peter was pondering over his vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.

Thus they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. The holy Spirit prevented them from delivering the message in Asia,

These are all produced by one and the same Spirit, and apportioned to each of us just as the Spirit chooses.

Separate

But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!"

And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit

The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be capable of teaching others.

The work

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been commended to God's favor for the work which they had now finished.

So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it."

After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

and I was appointed a herald and apostle of it?? am telling the truth, I am not lying??o teach the heathen faith and truth.

of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.

And no one takes the office upon himself, but men assume it only when called to it by God, as Aaron was.

General references

Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and stay by that car."