“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!”

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

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

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!