²⁵ As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence.

²⁶ But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”^(A)

¹³ The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

¹⁴ But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes^(A) and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: ¹⁵ “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human,^(B) like you. We are bringing you good news,^(C) telling you to turn from these worthless things^(D) to the living God,^(E) who made the heavens and the earth^(F) and the sea and everything in them.^(G)

⁸ I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things.^(A) And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet^(B) of the angel who had been showing them to me.

⁹ But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll.^(A) Worship God!”^(B)