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Jehovah's Witnessesto Cephas before them all : 'Ifyou, though you are a Jew, liveas the nations do, and not asJews do, how is it that you arecompelling people of the nationsto live according to Jewish practice?'"Heb . 13 :7, 24 "Remember thosewho are governing you, who havespoken the word of God to you,and as you contemplate how theirconduct turns out imitate theirfaith . Give my greetings to allthose who are governing you andto all the holy ones . Those inItaly send you their greetings ."Making appointments to specialservice positions in congregationsActs 6 :1-6 "So the twelve calledthe multitude of the disciples tothem and said : ` . brothers,search out for yourselves sevencertified men from among you,full of spirit and wisdom, that wemay appoint them over this necessarybusiness ; . . .'And the thingspoken was pleasing to the wholemultitude, and they selectedStephen . . . . and Philip . . . andthey placed them before theapostles, and after having prayedthese laid their hands uponthem ."Acts 14:23 "They [Paul andBarnabas] appointed older mento office for them in the congregation."Acts 15 :22, 23 "Then the apostlesand the older men togetherwith the whole congregation favoredsending chosen men fromamong them to Antioch ."Dividing territory, making territoryand missionaryassignmentsGal . 2 :7-10 "When they sawthat I had entrusted to me thegood news for those who are uncircumcised,just as Peter had itfor those who are circumcised- . James and Cephas andJohn, the ones who seemed to bepillars, gave me and Barnabasthe right hand of joint participation,that we should go to the202nations, but they to those whoare circumcised ."Acts 8 :14 "When the apostlesin Jerusalem heard that Samariahad accepted the word of God,they dispatched Peter and Johnto them ."Directing defense of the goodnews before courts andlegal bodiesActs 4:19, 20 "But in reply Peterand John said to them [theSanhedrin] : `Whether it is righteousin the sight of God to listento you rather than to God, makeyour decision. But as for us, wecannot stop speaking about thethings we have seen and heard .'"Acts 5 :29-32 "In answer [to theSanhedrin] Peter and the otherapostles said : 'We must obeyGod as ruler rather than men .' "Acts 25 :7-14 "But Paul said indefense : . . . `I am standing beforethe judgment seat of Caesar,where I ought to be judged . . . . Iappeal to Caesar!"'Acts 26 :32 "Agrippa said toFestus : `This man could havebeen released if he had not appealedto Caesar.'"Acts 28 :19 "But when the Jewskept speaking against it, I wascompelled to appeal to Caesar,but not as though I had anythingof which to accuse mynation ."Acts 16:35-39 "When it becameday, the civil magistrates dispatchedthe constables to say :`Release those men.' . . . But Paulsaid to them [the constables] :`They flogged us publicly uncondemned,men who are Romans,and threw us into prison ; andare they now throwing us outsecretly? No, indeed! but let themcome themselves and bring usout .' "Phil. 1 :7, 12-14 "All of youbeing sharers with me in the undeservedkindness both in myprison bonds and in the defendingand legally establishing ofthe good news . Now I desire youto know, brothers, that my af-