15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a ^kchosen instrument of mine to carry my name ^lbefore the Gentiles and ^mkings and the children of Israel.

2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the ^jHoly Spirit said, ^k“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

15 But when he who had ^yset me apart ^zbefore I was born,¹ and who called me by his grace,