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Acts 11:2-21

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2And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
3saying, Thou didst go in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
4But Peter rehearsed the matter to them in order from the beginning, saying,
5I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a sort of vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even to me;
6on which fixing my eyes, I observed, and saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the air.
7And I also heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8But I said, Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean ever entered my mouth.
9But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.
10And this was done three times; and all were again drawn up into heaven.
11And lo! immediately there stood three men at the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.
12And the Spirit bade me go with them. And these six brethren also came with me, and we entered the man's house.
13And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, surnamed Peter;
14who will speak to thee words by which thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.
15And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16And I remembered the word of the Lord, that he said, John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
17Since then God gave the like gift to them as to us, on believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?
18And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, So then to the gentiles also God hath granted repentance unto life.
19Now they who were scattered abroad by the persecution that arose on account of Stephen traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews.
20But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
21And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

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