Acts 11:6-25

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.

²²But the talk concerning them came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas, to go as far as Antioch;

²³who, when he came, and saw the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all to cleave to the Lord with purpose of heart;

²⁴for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

²⁵And he went to Tarsus, to seek for Saul;