mnt - Acts:11-12

mnt@Acts:11:1 @ Now the apostles and the brothers that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God;

mnt@Acts:11:2 @ so, when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party disputed with him,

mnt@Acts:11:3 @ saying, "You went into the houses of the uncircumcised and ate with them!"

mnt@Acts:11:4 @ Then Peter began and explained the whole matter to them in order, saying.

mnt@Acts:11:5 @ "I was in the city of Joppa, praying, and while in a trance I saw a vision; a certain vessel descending, what seemed to be an enormous sail let down to me,

mnt@Acts:11:6 @ and while I gazed at it, I examined it carefully, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and creeping things and the wild birds.

mnt@Acts:11:7 @ I also heard a voice saying to me, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.

mnt@Acts:11:8 @ "Not so, my Lord said I, for nothing common or unclean has ever gone into my mouth.

mnt@Acts:11:9 @ "But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, What God has cleansed, you must not call common.

mnt@Acts:11:10 @ "This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky.

mnt@Acts:11:11 @ "And lo! at that very moment, three men who had been sent for me from Caesarea stood before the house in which I was.

mnt@Acts:11:12 @ "And the Spirit bade me accompany them without misgiving. There also accompanied me these six brothers, and we went into the mans house.

mnt@Acts:11:13 @ "Then he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying. "Send to Joppa and fetch Simon who is also called Peter.

mnt@Acts:11:14 @ "He will speak words to you by which you and all your family will be saved.

mnt@Acts:11:15 @ "And," said Peter, "as soon as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as he fell upon us at the beginning.

mnt@Acts:11:16 @ "Then I remembered the words of the Lord, how he used to say, "John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

mnt@Acts:11:17 @ "So if God gave them the same gift as he gave to us, when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

mnt@Acts:11:18 @ On hearing this they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Forsooth then, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."

mnt@Acts:11:19 @ Then those who had been scattered by the trouble that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch; but they preached the word to none except Jews.

mnt@Acts:11:20 @ Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus.

mnt@Acts:11:21 @ The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

mnt@Acts:11:22 @ When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

mnt@Acts:11:23 @ When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

mnt@Acts:11:24 @ for he was a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

mnt@Acts:11:25 @ Then Barnabas visited Tarsus, to try to find Saul,

mnt@Acts:11:26 @ and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

mnt@Acts:11:27 @ At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

mnt@Acts:11:28 @ One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

mnt@Acts:11:29 @ So the disciples decided to send relief, every man according to his means, to the brothers in Judea.

mnt@Acts:11:30 @ This they did, forwarding their contributions to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

mnt@Acts:12:1 @ Now, at about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to ill- treat certain members of the church;

mnt@Acts:12:2 @ and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.

mnt@Acts:12:3 @ And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. (This was during the days of unleavened bread.)

mnt@Acts:12:4 @ He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

mnt@Acts:12:5 @ So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

mnt@Acts:12:6 @ Now when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, while Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison,

mnt@Acts:12:7 @ suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him saying, "Rise up quickly." At once the chains dropped from his hands.

mnt@Acts:12:8 @ "Gird yourself," said the angel, "and put on your sandals." He did so. Then he said unto him, "Throw your cloak about you, and follow me."

mnt@Acts:12:9 @ So Peter went out, following him, but did not realize that what the angel was doing was real, but supposed that he was seeing a vision.

mnt@Acts:12:10 @ And when they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that led to the city. This opened to them of its own accord; and they went out passed on through one street; and suddenly the angel left him.

mnt@Acts:12:11 @ Peter, coming to himself, said, "Now I know for a certainty that the Lord has sent his angel and released me from the hand of Herod, and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

mnt@Acts:12:12 @ So, after he had thought things over, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where a large number of people were assembled, praying.

mnt@Acts:12:13 @ When he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid servant named Rhoda came to answer.

mnt@Acts:12:14 @ And when she recognized Peters voice, for very joy she did not open the door, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

mnt@Acts:12:15 @ "You are mad," they said. But she confidently insisted that it was so. "It is his angel," they said.

mnt@Acts:12:16 @ Meanwhile Peter continued to knock, until at last they opened the door, and were amazed to see that it was really he.

mnt@Acts:12:17 @ He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

mnt@Acts:12:18 @ When morning came there was no small stir among the soldiers as to what could possibly have become of Peter.

mnt@Acts:12:19 @ Then Herod had search made for him, and could not find him. After sharply questioning the guards, he ordered them off to execution. He then went down from Judea to Caesarea, where he stayed for some time.

mnt@Acts:12:20 @ Now Herod was violently displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, with one accord, and after conciliating Blastus, the royal chamberlain, they begged for peace because their country depended upon the kings country for its food supply.

mnt@Acts:12:21 @ So on the appointed day, Herod put on his royal robes, and after taking his seat upon the throne, began to harangue them.

mnt@Acts:12:22 @ "The voice of a god, and not of a man," the people kept shouting.

mnt@Acts:12:23 @ Instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given God the glory, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

mnt@Acts:12:24 @ But the word of God grew and multiplied;

mnt@Acts:12:25 @ and after discharging their mission, Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John, surnamed Mark.

mnt@Acts:13:1 @ Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.