Acts-11

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Peter Explains His Actions The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
  • 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him
  • 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
  • 4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story:
  • 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.
  • 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.
  • 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
  • 8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
  • 9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
  • 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.
  • 11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
  • 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
  • 13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
  • 14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’
  • 15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
  • 16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with 11:16 Or in water, but you will be baptized with 11:16 Or in the Holy Spirit.’
  • 17 So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”
  • 18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.” The Church in Antioch
  • 19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.
  • 20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
  • 21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
  • 22 News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
  • 23 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.
  • 24 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
  • 25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
  • 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
  • 27 During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
  • 28 One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.)
  • 29 The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea.
  • 30 This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
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