Acts 11:16-22

¹⁶and I recalled the saying of the Master — ‘John baptised with water, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’

¹⁷Since then, God had given them the very same gift as he gave us when we became believers in Jesus Christ the Master — who was I that I could thwart God?”

¹⁸On hearing this statement, they said no more, but broke out into praise of God. “So even to the Gentiles,” they exclaimed, “God has granted the repentance which leads to life!”

¹⁹Now those who had been scattered in different directions, in consequence of the persecution that followed the death of Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message — but only to Jews.

²⁰Some of them, however, who were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, on coming to Antioch, addressed themselves also to the Jews of foreign birth, telling them the good news about that Lord Jesus.

²¹The power of the Lord was with them, so that a great number who had learnt to believe came over to the Lord's side.

²²The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.