Chapter 10, verse 38 - Chapter 11, verse 17
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even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
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We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem
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God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
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not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
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He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
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All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
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While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
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They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
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For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,
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“Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?”
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He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
Chapter 11
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Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
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When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
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saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”
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But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
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When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
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I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
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But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
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This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
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Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
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He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,
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who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
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As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
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I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’
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If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
