Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

Have we no right to food and to drink?

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?