Chapter 11

¹And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God; ²and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him, ³saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them. ⁴But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in order, saying, ⁵I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me: ⁶on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven. ⁷And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat. ⁸And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth. ⁹And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common. ¹⁰And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven; ¹¹and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea. ¹²And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man, ¹³and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ¹⁴who shall speak words to thee whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house. ¹⁵And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them even as upon us also at the beginning. ¹⁶And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with [the] Holy Spirit. ¹⁷If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God? ¹⁸And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life. ¹⁹They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone. ²⁰But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus. ²¹And [the] Lord`s hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. ²²And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch: ²³who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord; ²⁴for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord. ²⁵And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul. ²⁶And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. ²⁷Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch; ²⁸and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius. ²⁹And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them]; ³⁰which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.