Acts 11:9-17

⁹The voice from heaven spoke again, and said, ‘Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!’

¹⁰This happened three times, and then it was all taken back into heaven.

¹¹At that very moment three men were standing in front of the house where we were staying. They had been sent from Caesarea to see me.

¹²The Spirit told me to go with them, and not to worry about who they were. These six brothers here also went with me, and we went into the man's house.

¹³He explained to us how an angel had appeared to him in his house, who told him, ‘Send someone to Joppa, and fetch Simon, also called Peter,

¹⁴who will tell you what you need to hear so you can be saved—you and your whole household.’

¹⁵When I started speaking, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as happened to us in the beginning.

¹⁶Then I remembered what the Lord said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

¹⁷Since God gave them the same gift as he gave us when we trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ, what power did I have to oppose God?”