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Acts - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,
- and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,
- saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
- And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,
- `I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;
- at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;
- and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
- and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;
- and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
- `And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,
- and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Cesarea unto me,
- and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,
- he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
- who shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.
- `And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,
- and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;
- if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'
- And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'
- Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;
- and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,
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