Acts 11:1-20 ▼

1 Now the apostles and the brothers being in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

2 And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision began contending with him,

3 saying, “You went to men having uncircumcision and ate with them.”

4 Now Peter, having begun, set it forth to them in order, saying,

5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, being let down out of heaven by four corners, and it came as far as me.

6 Having looked intently on it, I was observing it, and I saw the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air.

7 And also I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat.’

8 But I said, ‘In no way, Lord, for never has a common or unclean thing entered into my mouth.’

9 But for a second time the voice answered out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you do not call common.’

10 Now this happened three times, and all was drawn up into heaven again.

11 And behold, immediately three men having been sent to me from Caesarea stood at the house in which we were.

12 And the Spirit told me to go with them, not having doubted. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man’s house,

13 and he related to us how he saw the angel having stood in his house and having said, ‘Send forth to Joppa and send for Simon who is called Peter,

14 who will speak words to you by which you will be saved—you and all your household.’

15 And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning.

16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you? will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

17 If, then, God gave to them the same gift as also to us having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how was I able to forbid God?”

18 And having heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, “Then indeed God has given also to the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

19 Therefore, indeed, those having been scattered by the tribulation having taken place over Stephen passed through to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

20 But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, having come into Antioch, were speaking also to the Hellenists, proclaiming the gospel—the Lord Jesus.