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| 11:1 |
Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
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| 11:2 |
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,
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| 11:3 |
saying, 'Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?'
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| 11:4 |
But Peter began and explained to them in order:
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| 11:5 |
'I was in the city of Joppa praying;and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending, like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners;and it came down to me.
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| 11:6 |
Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
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| 11:7 |
And I heard a voice saying to me, Rise, Peter;kill and eat.'
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| 11:8 |
But I said, No, Lord;for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
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| 11:9 |
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed you must not call common.'
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| 11:10 |
This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
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| 11:11 |
At that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesare'a.
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| 11:12 |
And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brethren also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
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| 11:13 |
And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter;
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| 11:14 |
he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
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| 11:15 |
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
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| 11:16 |
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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| 11:17 |
If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?'
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| 11:18 |
When they heard this they were silenced. And they glorified God, saying, 'Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life.'
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| 11:19 |
Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoeni'cia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews.
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| 11:20 |
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyre'ne, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
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| 11:21 |
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.
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| 11:22 |
News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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| 11:23 |
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad;and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;
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| 11:24 |
for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord.
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| 11:25 |
So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul;
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| 11:26 |
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people;and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.
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| 11:27 |
Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
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| 11:28 |
And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius.
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| 11:29 |
And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
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| 11:30 |
and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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