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Acts 11

Peter Reports at Jerusalem

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Now the apostles and  athe brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

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And when Peter came up to Jerusalem,  1 athose who were circumcised took issue with him,

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saying, " aYou  1went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."

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But Peter began speaking  1and proceeded to explain to them  ain orderly sequence, saying,

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aI was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw  ba vision, an  1object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from  2the sky; and it came right down to me,

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and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it  1I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the  2crawling creatures and the birds of the  3air.

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"I also heard a voice saying to me, `Get up, Peter;  1kill and eat.'

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"But I said, `By no means, Lord, for nothing  1unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

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"But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ` aWhat God has cleansed, no longer  1consider unholy.'

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"This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into  1the sky.

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"And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from  aCaesarea.

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aThe Spirit told me to go with them  1 bwithout misgivings.  cThese six brethren also went with me and we entered the man's house.

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"And he reported to us how he had seen the angel  1standing in his house, and saying, `Send to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here;

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and he will speak  awords to you by which you will be saved, you and  ball your household.'

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"And as I began to speak,  athe Holy Spirit fell upon them just  bas He did upon us at the beginning.

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"And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, aJohn baptized with water, but you will be baptized  1with the Holy Spirit.'

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"Therefore if  aGod gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ,  bwho was I that I could  1stand in God's way?"

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When they heard this, they  1quieted down and  aglorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the  brepentance that leads to life."

The Church at Antioch

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 aSo then those who were scattered because of the  1persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way  2to  bPhoenicia and  cCyprus and  dAntioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

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But there were some of them, men of  aCyprus and  bCyrene, who came to  cAntioch and began speaking to the  1 dGreeks also,  2 epreaching the Lord Jesus.

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And  athe hand of the Lord was with them, and  ba large number who believed turned to the Lord.

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The  1news about them  2reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent  aBarnabas off  3to  bAntioch.

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Then when he arrived and  1witnessed  athe grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with  2resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

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for he was a good man, and  afull of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And  bconsiderable  1numbers were  2brought to the Lord.

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And he left for  aTarsus to look for Saul;

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and when he had found him, he brought him to  aAntioch. And for an entire year they  1met with the church and taught considerable  2numbers; and  bthe disciples were first called  cChristians in  aAntioch.

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Now  1at this time  asome prophets came down from Jerusalem to  bAntioch.

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One of them named  aAgabus stood up and began to indicate  1by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine  ball over the  2world.  3And this took place in the reign of  cClaudius.

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And in the proportion that any of  athe disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the  1relief of  bthe brethren living in Judea.

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 aAnd this they did, sending it  1in charge of  bBarnabas and Saul to the  celders.



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