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¹ And the apostles and the brothers who are in Judea heard that the nations also received the word of God,² and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of circumcision were contending with him,³ saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"⁴ And Peter having begun, set [it] forth to them in order, saying,⁵ "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of Heaven, and it came to me;⁶ at which having looked steadfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky;⁷ and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;⁸ and I said, Not so, Lord, because anything common or unclean has at no time entered into my mouth;⁹ and a voice answered me a second time out of Heaven, What God cleansed, you do not declare common.¹⁰ And this happened three times, and again was all drawn up to Heaven,¹¹ and behold, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me,¹² and the Spirit said to me to go with them, doubting nothing, and these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man,¹³ he also declared to us how he saw the messenger standing in his house, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,¹⁴ who will speak sayings by which you will be saved, you and all your house.¹⁵ And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as also on us in the beginning,¹⁶ and I remembered the saying of the LORD, how He said, John indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit;¹⁷ if then God gave to them the equal gift as also to us, having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, I—how was I able to withstand God?"¹⁸ And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, "Then, indeed, God also gave conversion to life to the nations."

¹⁹ Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through to Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;²⁰ and there were certain of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking to the Hellenists, proclaiming good news—the Lord Jesus,²¹ and the hand of the LORD was with them, a great number also, having believed, turned to the LORD.²² And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that [is] in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through to Antioch,²³ who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the LORD,²⁴ because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the LORD.²⁵ And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul,²⁶ and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they assembled together a whole year in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

²⁷ And in those days there came from Jerusalem prophets to Antioch,²⁸ and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, signified through the Spirit a great scarcity is about to be throughout all the world—which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar—²⁹ and the disciples, according as anyone was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministry to the brothers dwelling in Judea,³⁰ which also they did, having sent to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.