3. My defense to those who examine me is this.
4. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
5. Don’t we have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other emissaries and the Lord’s brothers and Kefa?
6. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to not work?
7. What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink its milk?
8. I don’t say these things merely as a man, do I? Doesn’t Torah also say these things?