¹⁷ Now, ^(A)belt your garment around your waist and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. ^(B)Do not be dismayed before them, or I will make you dismayed before them. ¹⁸ Now behold, I have made you today like a fortified city and like a pillar of iron and walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its leaders, to its priests, and to the people of the land.

¹⁵ Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring ^(A)innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words ^[a]so that you hear them.”

¹⁵ But the Lord took me from ^[a]following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go ^(A)prophesy to My people Israel.’

¹⁹ But ^(A)Peter and John answered and said to them, “^(B)Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, make your own judgment;

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered, “^(A)We must obey God rather than men.