¹⁶ He appointed the twelve: ^(A)Simon (to whom ^(B)he gave the name Peter);

⁴² He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of ^(A)John. You shall be called ^(B)Cephas” (which means ^(C)Peter^[a]).

¹³ And when they had entered, they went up to ^(A)the upper room, where they were staying, ^(B)Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon ^(C)the Zealot and Judas the son of James.

Greeting

1 Simeon^[a] Peter, a servant^[b] and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have obtained ^(A)a faith of equal standing with ours ^(B)by the righteousness of our ^(C)God and Savior Jesus Christ:

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been ^(A)entrusted with ^(B)the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised ⁸ (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), ⁹ and when James and Cephas and John, ^(C)who seemed to be ^(D)pillars, perceived the ^(E)grace that was given to me, they ^(F)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

^5 (A)Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,^[a] as do the other apostles and ^(B)the brothers of the Lord and ^(C)Cephas?

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,

¹² What I mean is that ^(A)each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow ^(B)Apollos,” or “I follow ^(C)Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

^16 (A)Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.