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CHAPTER 11.
1 AND the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea,
heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that
were of the circumcision contended with him,
3 Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised,
and didst eat with them?
4 But Peter began and declared to them the matter in
order, saying:
5 I was in the city of Joppe praying, and I saw in an
ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet
let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even unto me.
6 Into which looking, I considered, and saw fourfooted
creatures of the earth, and beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air:
7 And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter;
kill and eat.
8 And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or
unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
9 And the voice answered again from heaven: What God
hath made clean, do not thou call common.
10 And this was done three times: and all were taken up
again into heaven.
11 And behold, immediately there were three men come to
the house wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea.
12 And the Spirit said to me, that I should go with
them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we
entered into the man's house.
13 And he told us how he had seen an angel in his
house, standing, and saying to him: Send to Joppe, and call hither Simon, who
is surnamed Peter,
14 Who shall speak to thee words, whereby thou shalt be
saved, and all thy house.
15 And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell
upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.
16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he
said: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the
Holy Ghost.
17 If then God gave them the same grace, as to us also
who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, that could withstand God?
18 Having heard these things, they held their peace,
and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance
unto life.
19 Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution
that arose on occasion of Stephen, went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and
Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.
20 But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who,
when they were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the
Lord Jesus.
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great
number believing, were converted to the Lord.
22 And the tidings came to the ears of the church that
was at Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as
Antioch.
23 Who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of
God, rejoiced: and he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in
the Lord.
24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost
and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.
25 And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when
he had found, he brought to Antioch.
26 And they conversed there in the church a whole year;
and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first
named Christians.
27 And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem
to Antioch:
28 And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified
by the Spirit, that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which
came to pass under Claudius.
29 And the disciples, every man according to his
ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea:
30 Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by
the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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