The New Testament / Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses.

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CHAPTER IX.

PETER CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ASSOCIATING WITH GENTILES, AND JUSTIFIED; PREACHING TO THE GENTILES CONTINUED.

1 ^11:1AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles received the word of God. ^11:2And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, ^11:3saying, You went in to men that were uncircumcised, and eat with them. ^11:4And Peter began and related to them in order, saying, ^11:5I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from heaven, and it came to me; ^11:6and looking into it attentively I perceived and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and birds of heaven. ^11:7And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter, kill and eat. ^11:8And I said, By no means, Lord, for nothing common or impure has ever entered into my mouth. ^11:9And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common. ^11:10And this was done thrice, and again all were taken up to heaven.

2 ^11:11And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I was, being sent for me from Cæsarea. ^11:12And the Spirit told me to go with them. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man. ^11:13And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter, ^11:14who will speak words to you by which you shall be saved and all your house. ^11:15And when I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them as also on us in the beginning. ^11:16And I remembered the word of the Lord how he said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. ^11:17If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to forbid God? ^11:18And hearing these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given the change of mind to life.

3 ^11:19And those scattered abroad by the affliction which commenced with Stephen, went even to Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but Jews only. ^11:20But some of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks preaching the good news of the Lord Jesus. ^11:21And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. ^11:22And a report concerning them was brought to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch; ^11:23who having come and seen the grace of God rejoiced, and exhorted all to adhere to the Lord with the purpose of the heart; ^11:24for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude were added to the Lord.

4 ^11:25And he went to Tarsus to seek for Saul, ^11:26and found and brought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year with the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first took the name of Christians at Antioch.

5 ^11:27And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch; ^11:28and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up signified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all the world; which also came under Claudius Cæsar. ^11:29And each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send help to the brethren living in Judea; ^11:30which they also did, sending to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.