Acts:11
rsv@Acts:11:1 @ Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
rsv@Acts:11:2 @ So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,
rsv@Acts:11:3 @ saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
rsv@Acts:11:4 @ But Peter began and explained to them in order:
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts:11:6 @ Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
rsv@Acts:11:7 @ And I heard a voice saying to me, `Rise, Peter; kill and eat.'
rsv@Acts:11:8 @ But I said, `No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
rsv@Acts:11:9 @ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, `What God has cleansed you must not call common.'
rsv@Acts:11:10 @ This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
rsv@Acts:11:11 @ At that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesare'a.
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts: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;
rsv@Acts:11:14 @ he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
rsv@Acts:11:15 @ As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
rsv@Acts: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.'
rsv@Acts: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?"
rsv@Acts: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."
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts:11:21 @ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.
rsv@Acts:11:22 @ News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
rsv@Acts: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;
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts:11:25 @ So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul;
rsv@Acts: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.
rsv@Acts:11:27 @ Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
rsv@Acts:11:28 @ And one of them named Ag'abus 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.
rsv@Acts:11:29 @ And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
rsv@Acts:11:30 @ and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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