For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

They actually made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to this idol, and grew festive over what their own hands had manufactured.

To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

All this is beyond question. So you should keep calm and do nothing reckless.

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,