¹⁴ and he appointed twelve, that they may be with him, and that he may send them forth to preach,

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

¹ And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses,

² and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.

³ And he said unto them, `Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;

⁴ and into whatever house ye may enter, there remain, and thence depart;

⁵ and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.'

⁶ And going forth they were going through the several villages, proclaiming good news, and healing everywhere.

¹ And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,

² then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed `is' abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

³ `Go away; lo, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves;

⁴ carry no bag, no scrip, nor sandals; and salute no one on the way;

⁵ and into whatever house ye do enter, first say, Peace to this house;

⁶ and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back.

⁷ `And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy `is' the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

⁸ and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,

⁹ and heal the ailing in it, and say to them, The reign of God hath come nigh to you.

¹⁰ `And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say,

¹¹ And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you;

⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

⁸ but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

²⁴ and having prayed, they said, `Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two

²⁵ to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

¹ Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --

¹⁵ and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

¹⁸ then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,

¹⁹ and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.

²⁰ And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;