Deeds (Act) of Apostles 11:2-22

²But when Peter came to Jerusalem, they that were of circumcision, disputed against him,

³and said, Why enteredest thou to men that have prepuce, and hast eaten with them?

⁴And Peter began, and expounded to them by order, and said,

⁵I was in the city of Joppa, and prayed, and I saw in ravishing of my mind or in excess of my soul a vision, that a vessel came down, as a great sheet with four cords or with four corners, and was sent down from heaven; and it came to me.

⁶Into which I looking beheld, and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and beasts, and creeping beasts, and volatiles of heaven or of the air.

⁷And I heard also a voice that said to me, Peter, rise thou, and slay, and eat.

⁸But I said, Nay, Lord; for common thing either unclean entered never into my mouth.

⁹And the voice answered the second time from heaven, That thing that God hath cleansed, say thou not unclean.

¹⁰And this was done by thrice, and all things were received again into heaven.

¹¹And lo! three men anon stood in the house, in which I was; and they were sent from Caesarea to me.

¹²And the Spirit said to me, that I should go with them, and doubt nothing. Yea, and these six brethren came with me, and we entered into the house of the man.

¹³And he told to us, how he saw an angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send thou into Joppa, and call Simon, that is named Peter,

¹⁴which shall speak to thee words, in which thou shalt be safe, and all thine house.

¹⁵And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as into us in the beginning.

¹⁶And I bethought on the word of the Lord, as he said, For John baptized in water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁷Therefore if God gave to them the same grace, as to us that believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that might forbid the Lord, that he give not the Holy Ghost or that he should not give the Holy Ghost to them that believed in the name of Jesus Christ?

¹⁸When these things were heard, they held peace, and glorified God, and said, Therefore also to heathen men God hath given penance to life.

¹⁹And they that were scattered of the tribulation that was made under Stephen, walked forth to Phoenicia, and to Cyprus, and to Antioch, and spake the word to no man, but to Jews alone.

²⁰But some of them were men of Cyprus, and of Cyrene; which when they had entered into Antioch, they spake to the Greeks, and preached the Lord Jesus.

²¹And the hand of the Lord was with them, and much number of men believing was converted to the Lord.

²²And the word came to the ears of the church, that was at Jerusalem, on these things; and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.