Simon

What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

²¹ Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

²³ and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

³ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴ that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵ and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

² Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

¹³ When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

¹⁴ With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

¹⁵ In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

¹⁶ “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words.

³⁷ When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

³⁸ Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹ One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

² And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.

⁴ Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.

⁵ So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶ But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”