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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!' |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!' |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one but Jews. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But there were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.) |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul. |
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