Acts 11:1-18

¹Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. ²And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, ³saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” ⁴But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, ⁵“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, ⁶and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air. ⁷I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’ ⁸But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ ⁹But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’ ¹⁰This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky. ¹¹And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from Caesarea. ¹²The Spirit told me to go with them without misgivings. These six brethren also went with me and we entered the man’s house. ¹³And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here; ¹⁴and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’ ¹⁵And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning. ¹⁶And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?” ¹⁸When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”