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Acts 11:2-21

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2When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision party started contending with him,
3saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
4So Peter began by explaining it to them in order, saying:
5“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain object like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, being lowered by its four corners; and it came to me.
6Upon peering into it I observed and distinguished the quadrupeds of the earth—both the wild animals and the reptiles—and the birds of the sky.
7Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’
8So I said: ‘No way, Lord! Never has anything ‘common’ or unclean entered my mouth!’
9But the voice answered me, a second time, from heaven, ‘Things that God has made clean you must not call ‘common’.’
10Well this was done three times, and it was all pulled back up into the sky.
11At that very moment three men stopped in front of the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
12The Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.
13He then related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
14who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.’
15Well as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning.
16I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit.’
17So if God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus, who was I to be able to withstand God?”
18Upon hearing these things they acquiesced and started glorifying God, saying, “So then, God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance into life!”
19Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that came about in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.
20But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who upon entering Antioch started speaking to the Greek-speakers, 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.

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