So the twelve summoned the main body of the disciples and said: "It is not desirable that we should drop preaching the word of God and attend to meals.

As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

Paul held they should not take a man with them who had deserted them in Pamphylia, instead of accompanying them on active service.

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

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "You shall hear him to-morrow," said Festus.

[Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead,

that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"

When they had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and spared yourselves this hardship and loss by refusing to set sail from Crete.