Acts Chapter 11

• Acts 11:1
  Acts.
• Acts 11:2
  Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
• Acts 11:3
  When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
• Acts 11:4
  saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
• Acts 11:5
  But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
• Acts 11:6
  “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...
• Acts 11:7
  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.
• Acts 11:8
  I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
• Acts 11:9
  But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
• Acts 11:10
  But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
• Acts 11:11
  This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
• Acts 11:12
  Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
• Acts 11:13
  The Spirit told me to go with them without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
• Acts 11:14
  He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa and get Simon, who is called Peter,
• Acts 11:15
  who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
• Acts 11:16
  As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
• Acts 11:17
  I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’
• Acts 11:18
  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?”
• Acts 11:19
  When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• Acts 11:20
  They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the wo...
• Acts 11:21
  But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 11:22
  The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
• Acts 11:23
  The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
• Acts 11:24
  who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Acts 11:25
  For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
• Acts 11:26
  Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
• Acts 11:27
  When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciple...
• Acts 11:28
  Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
• Acts 11:29
  One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days ...
• Acts 11:30
  As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
• Acts 11:31
  which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.