11:1And the Apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles too had received the word of God. 11:2And when Peter had gone up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision were arguing against him, saying: "Why did you go in to men having a foreskin, and eat with them?" 11:4But Peter, beginning, was setting out the matter in order for them, saying: "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a departure of mind a vision, a certain vessel coming down like a great linen sheet, being let down by four corners from heaven, and it came right to me. 11:6Gazing into which I was considering it, and I saw four-footed creatures of the earth, and beasts, and creeping things, and flying things of the sky.
11:7And I heard also a voice saying to me: 'Rise, Peter: kill, and eat.' 11:8But I said: 'By no means, Lord: because anything common or unclean has never gone into my mouth.' 11:9But the voice answered a second time from heaven: 'What God has cleansed, do not you call common.' 11:10And this was done three times: and all things were taken back again into heaven. 11:11And look, at once three men stood at the house in which I was, sent from Caesarea to me. 11:12And the Spirit told me to go with them, hesitating not at all. 11:12And there came with me also these six brothers, and we went into the house of the man.
11:13And he related to us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing and saying to him: 'Send to Joppa, and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter, who will speak to you words in which you will be saved, you and all your house.' 11:15But when I had begun to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as upon us too in the beginning. 11:16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he used to say: 'John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' 11:17If therefore God gave them the same grace, as to us too who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that I could forbid God?"
11:18These things having been heard, they fell silent: and they glorified God, saying: "Then to the gentiles too God has given repentance unto life." 11:19And those indeed who had been scattered by the tribulation which had arisen under Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to the Jews alone. 11:20But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come into Antioch, were speaking to the Greeks too, announcing the Lord Jesus. 11:21And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number of those believing turned to the Lord. 11:22And the report about these things reached the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.
11:23He, when he had arrived, and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced: and he was exhorting all to remain in the Lord with purpose of heart: for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith. 11:24And a great crowd was added to the Lord. 11:25And Barnabas set out for Tarsus, to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. 11:26And for a whole year they lived there in the church: and they taught a great crowd, so that the disciples were first named at Antioch Christians. 11:27And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch: and one of them, by name Agabus, rising up, was indicating through the spirit that there would be a great famine in the whole world, which happened under Claudius.
11:29And the disciples, according as each one had means, each resolved to send for relief to the brothers living in Judea: which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.