Simon

And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.

And he told us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing and saying to him: Send to Joppe and call hither Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes.

Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined in the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying: Arise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands.

And Peter coming to himself, said: Now I know in very deed that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken. whose name was Rhode.

And as soon as she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate.

But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw him and were astonished.

Now when day was come, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.

Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. For all are yours.

Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.

Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I tarried with him fifteen days.

But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

(For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)

And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,

Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.