3. My defence to those who examine me is this:
4. Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
5. have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
7. Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8. Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
9. For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,