Acts 10:44-11:10 (Epistle)
- 44
- While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
- 45
- And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
- 46
- For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered,
- 47
- “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
- 48
- And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.
- 1
- Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
- 2
- And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him,
- 3
- saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
- 4
- But Peter explained it to them in order from the beginning, saying:
- 5
- “I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came to me.
- 6
- When I observed it intently and considered, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.
- 7
- And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’
- 8
- But I said, ‘Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth.’
- 9
- But the voice answered me again from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’
- 10
- Now this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.