Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

The holy

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

Separate

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

The work

But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

General references

You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."