Acts 11:1-18
Chapter 11
Peter’s Report in Jerusalem
News reached the apostles and the brothers and sisters in Judea that even foreigners had accepted the word of God.So, when Peter traveled to Jerusalem, these Jewish believers started to argue with him:
“You went to the home of uncircumcised people and ate with them!”
So Peter began to share the facts as they had happened:
“I was praying in the city of Joppa when, in a trance, I saw a vision. Something like a large sheet came down from the sky and drew near to me, landing on the ground by its four corners.
As I stared at it, I saw four-footed creatures of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
Then I heard a voice saying to me: ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat!’
I replied, ‘Certainly not, Lord! No common or unclean creature has ever entered my mouth.’
A second time, the voice from the heavens said, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call unclean.’
This happened three times, and then it was all lifted back into the sky.
At that moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were staying.
The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation; so these six brothers went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and telling him, ‘Send someone to Joppa and fetch Simon, also known as Peter.
He will bring you a message that will save you and your entire household.’
I had begun to address them when suddenly the Holy Spirit came upon them, just as it had come upon us at the beginning.
Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
If then, God had given them the same gift that he had given us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to resist God?
When they heard this, they calmed their minds and praised God, saying:
“Then God has granted life-giving repentance to the pagan nations as well.”