Acts 11:11-27

¹¹And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.

¹²And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house:

¹³And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

¹⁴Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.

¹⁵And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

¹⁶And the words of the Lord came into my mind, how he said, The baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

¹⁸And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

¹⁹Then those who had gone away at the time of the trouble about Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus, preaching to the Jews only.

²⁰But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.

²¹And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

²²And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:

²³Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

²⁴For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.

²⁵Then he went on to Tarsus, looking for Saul;

²⁶And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

²⁷Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.