11The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also. ²When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision ^cargued with him, ^d³saying, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them!” ^e

⁴Peter began to explain to them in an orderly sequence, saying: ⁵“I ^fwas in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me. ⁶When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky. ⁷Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat!’

⁸“ ‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’ ⁹But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made ^•clean, you must not call common.’

¹⁰“Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven. ¹¹At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were. ¹²Then the Spirit told me to accompany them with no doubts at all. These six brothers accompanied me, and we went into the man’s house. ^g¹³He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send ^hto Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter. ¹⁴He will speak a message ⁱto you that you and all your household ^jwill be saved by.’

¹⁵“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning. ^k¹⁶Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ^l ¹⁷Therefore, if God gave them the same gift that He also gave to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God?” ^m

¹⁸When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life ⁿeven to the Gentiles!” ^o

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Footnotes

c11:2 those of the circumcision
•When something is clean, it is holy or acceptable to God. When it is unclean, it is unholy (such as an unclean spirit). The term can be used in a ritual sense to apply to moral standards for living.
h11:13 Other add men
i11:14 speak words
n11:18 Or repentance to life

Cross references

d11:2 Ac 10:45; Col 4:11; 1Tm 1:10
e11:3 Ac 10:28; Gl 2:12
f11:5–14 Ac 10:9–32
g11:12 Ac 8:29; 10:23; 15:9
j11:14 Jn 4:53; Ac 10:2; 16:15, 31–34; 18:8; 1Co 1:16
k11:15 Ac 2:4; 10:44
l11:16 Mt 3:11; Mk 1:8; Lk 3:16; Jn 1:33; Ac 1:5
m11:17 Ac 5:39; 10:45, 47
o11:18 Rm 10:12–13; 2Co 7:10