⁸ Then I heard the voice^(A) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?^(B) And who will go for us?^(C)”

And I said, “Here am I.^(D) Send me!”

¹⁵ But the Lord took me from tending the flock^(A) and said to me, ‘Go,^(B) prophesy^(C) to my people Israel.’^(D)

¹⁸ Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.^{(A) 19} But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him?^(B) You be the judges! ²⁰ As for us, we cannot help speaking^(C) about what we have seen and heard.”^(D)

²⁹ Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!^(A)