Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

But Peter and the apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than people.

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.