⁴¹ So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

¹⁴ Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,^(A)

A Christian’s Duties to the State

13 Let everyone submit to the governing authorities,^(A) since there is no authority except from God,^(B) and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

²⁰ who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(A) while the ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[a](B)—were saved through water.