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nsb@Acts:11:1 @ The apostles and brothers in Judea heard that the people of the nations also received the word of God.

nsb@Acts:11:2 @ When Peter went to Jerusalem, those who favored circumcision argued with him.

nsb@Acts:11:3 @ They said: »You went to the uncircumcised and ate with them.«

nsb@Acts:11:4 @ Peter started at the beginning and explained what happened.

nsb@Acts:11:5 @ »I was in the city of Joppa praying. In a trance I saw a vision. A vessel descended like a great sheet. It let down from heaven by four corners and it came to me.

nsb@Acts:11:6 @ »I looked in it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things and birds of the air.

nsb@Acts:11:7 @ »I heard a voice say to me, Get up Peter slaughter and eat.

nsb@Acts:11:8 @ »I said, No Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.

nsb@Acts:11:9 @ »The voice answered me again from heaven, Do not call defiled what God has cleansed!

nsb@Acts:11:10 @ »This happened three times. Then everything was pulled up again into heaven.

nsb@Acts:11:11 @ »At that moment there were three men who were sent from Caesarea to me at the house where I was.

nsb@Acts:11:12 @ »The Spirit told me to go with them and not to doubt them. These six brothers accompanied me when we entered the mans house.

nsb@Acts:11:13 @ »He showed us how he had seen an angel in his house that stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.

nsb@Acts:11:14 @ »He will bring you a message so that you and your household shall be saved.

nsb@Acts:11:15 @ »When I spoke the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it was in the beginning.

nsb@Acts:11:16 @ »Then I remembered what the Lord said, John indeed baptized with water. However you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Acts:11:17 @ »Since God gave them the same gift as he gave to us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could oppose God?«

nsb@Acts:11:18 @ When they heard this they objected no more and praised God, saying: »God has granted the people of the nations repentance to life.«

nsb@Acts:11:19 @ Those who were scattered abroad because of the persecution of Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word only to the Jews.

nsb@Acts:11:20 @ Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene. When they came to Antioch they spoke to the Greeks and preached the Lord Jesus.

nsb@Acts:11:21 @ The hand of God was with them. A great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

nsb@Acts:11:22 @ News of these things came to the ears of the congregation in Jerusalem. They sent Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch.

nsb@Acts:11:23 @ When he arrived he saw the grace of God and was glad. He exhorted them all to remain true to the Lord as their only purpose of heart.

nsb@Acts:11:24 @ For he was a good man full of Holy Spirit and of faith. Then many people were added to the Lord.

nsb@Acts:11:25 @ Then Barnabas departed to Tarsus to seek Saul.

nsb@Acts:11:26 @ When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They met with the congregation for a whole year. They taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

nsb@Acts:11:27 @ Prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch at that time.

nsb@Acts:11:28 @ One of them was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

nsb@Acts:11:29 @ The disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers in Judea.

nsb@Acts:11:30 @ They sent it to the elders through Barnabas and Saul.

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