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Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!’

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Yafo and bring back Shim‘on, known as Kefa.

When Herod saw how much this pleased the Judeans, he went on to arrest Kefa as well. It was during the Days of Matzah,

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.

The night before Herod was going to bring him to trial, Kefa was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains; and guards were at the door, keeping watch over the prison.

Suddenly an angel of Adonai stood there, and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Kefa’s side and woke him. “Hurry! Get up!” he said; and the chains fell off his hands.

Then Kefa came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod’s power and from everything the Judean people were hoping for.”

He knocked at the outside door, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

She recognized Kefa’s voice and was so happy that she ran back in without opening the door, and announced that Kefa was standing outside.

Meanwhile, Kefa kept knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were amazed.

When daylight came, there was no small commotion among the soldiers over what had become of Kefa.

After lengthy debate, Kefa got up and said to them, “Brothers, you yourselves know that a good while back, God chose me from among you to be the one by whose mouth the Goyim should hear the message of the Good News and come to trust.

Shim‘on has told in detail what God did when he first began to show his concern for taking from among the Goyim a people to bear his name.

I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”

whether Sha’ul or Apollos or Kefa or the world or life or death or the present or the future: they all belong to you,

Don’t we have the right to take along with us a believing wife, as do the other emissaries, also the Lord’s brothers and Kefa?

and he was seen by Kefa, then by the Twelve;

Not until three years later did I go up to Yerushalayim to make Kefa’s acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Uncircumcised, just as Kefa had been for the Circumcised;

since the One working in Kefa to make him an emissary to the Circumcised had worked in me to make me an emissary to the Gentiles.

So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, Ya‘akov, Kefa and Yochanan, the acknowledged pillars of the community, extended to me and Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised.

Furthermore, when Kefa came to Antioch, I opposed him publicly, because he was clearly in the wrong.

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, keeping in line with the truth of the Good News, I said to Kefa, right in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Goy and not like a Jew, why are you forcing the Goyim to live like Jews?

From: Kefa, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah To: God’s chosen people, living as aliens in the Diaspora — in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bythinia —

From: Shim‘on Kefa, a slave and emissary of Yeshua the Messiah To: Those who, through the righteousness of our God and of our Deliverer Yeshua the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours: