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Acts 11 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Peter Reports to the Church

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:1 - Now the apostles and the brothers[fn] who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:2 - So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party[fn] criticized him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:3 - “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:4 - But Peter began and explained it to them in order:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:5 - “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:7 - And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:8 - But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9 - But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:10 - This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:11 - And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:12 - And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:13 - And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:14 - he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:15 - As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:16 - And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:17 - If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:18 - When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

The Church in Antioch

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:19 - Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:20 - But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists[fn] also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:21 - And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:22 - The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:23 - When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:24 - for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:25 - So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:26 - and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:27 - Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:28 - And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:29 - So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers[fn] living in Judea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:30 - And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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Or brothers and sisters
Or Jerusalem, those of the circumcision
Or Greeks (that is, Greek-speaking non-Jews)
Or brothers and sisters
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