Acts 11: 1 - 18
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Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
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So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,
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saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
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But Peter began and explained to them in order:
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"I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending, like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came down to me.
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Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
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And I heard a voice saying to me, `Rise, Peter; kill and eat.'
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But I said, `No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
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But the voice answered a second time from heaven, `What God has cleansed you must not call common.'
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This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
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At that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesare'a.
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And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brethren also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
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And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, `Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter;
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he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
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As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
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And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, `John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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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 withstand God?"
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When they heard this they were silenced. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."
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