mnt - Acts:11

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.