¹⁷ Motioning to them with his hand^(A) to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. ‘Tell these things to James^(B) and the brothers,’ he said, and he left and went to another place.

⁷ After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, ‘Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you,^[a] that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.