Acts 11:9-17

⁹Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. ‘What God has pronounced clean’, it said, ‘you must not call defiled.’

¹⁰This happened three times, and then all was drawn up again into the heavens.

¹¹At that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to see me, came up to the house in which we were.

¹²The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six companions also went with me. And, when we came into the man's house,

¹³he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and how the angel had said to him — ‘Send to Jaffa and fetch the Simon, who is also known as Peter;

¹⁴for he will tell you truths, which will prove the means of salvation to you and all your household.’

¹⁵I had but just begun to speak,” continued Peter, “when the Holy Spirit fell on them, exactly as on us at the first;

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?”