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Acts 11:12-30

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12And the Spirit told me to go with them, without wavering. Now these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man.
13And he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter,
14who will speak words to you by which you and all your household shall be saved.’
15And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.
16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
17If then God has given to them the same gift as He gave to us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”
18And hearing these things, they remained silent, and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
19Then those who were scattered because of the tribulation coming about over Stephen, went about as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.
20But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, entering into Antioch spoke to the Greek speaking Jews, preaching the good news of the Lord Jesus.
21And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord.
22And the word about them was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas to go as far as Antioch;
23who, arriving and seeing the grace of God, was glad, and encouraged them all with purpose of heart to continue with the Lord,
24for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.
25And Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
26and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came about that for a whole year they assembled with the church and instructed many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
27Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28And rising up, one of them named Agabus, foretold by the Spirit of a great famine about to happen in all the world, which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar.
29Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined as a ministry to send relief to the brothers dwelling in Judea;
30which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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