²⁸ Then he said to them, “You know how ^(A)unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But ^(B)God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For ^(A)Jews have no dealings with ^(B)Samaritans.

⁶ that the Gentiles ^(A)should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, ^7 (B)of which I became a minister ^(C)according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by ^(D)the effective working of His power.

¹² for before certain men came from James, ^(A)he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing ^[a]those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not straightforward about ^(B)the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter ^(C)before them all, ^(D)“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, ^[b]why do you compel Gentiles to live as ^[c]Jews?

⁸ So God, ^(A)who knows the heart, ^[a]acknowledged them by ^(B)giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, ^9 (C)and made no distinction between us and them, ^(D)purifying their hearts by faith.