Acts 10:45-11:18

Living_Oracles(i) 45 and they of the circumcision, who believed, as many as came with Peter, were astonished that the gift of the Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles also: 46 for they heard them speaking in diverse languages, and glorifying God. 47 Then Peter answered, Can any one forbid water, that these persons should not be immersed, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we? 48 And he ordered them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. And they entreated him to continue with them several days. 11 1 Now the Apostles and brethren who were in Jerusalem, heard, that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they who were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 saying, You did go in to men who were uncircumcised, and did eat with them. 4 And Peter beginning, opened to them the matter in order, saying, 5 I was praying in the city of Joppa; and, in a trance, I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending from heaven, let down by the four corners, and it came close to me: 6 and looking attentively upon it, I observed, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and fowls of the air: 7 and I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter, kill, and eat: 8 but I said, By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth. 9 And the voice answered me the second time from heaven, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common. 10 And this was done three times. And all the things were drawn up again into heaven. 11 And behold, at that instant, three men were come to the house in which I was, sent from Caesarea to me. 12 And the Spirit commanded me to go with them, without any scruple: and these six brethren also went along with me. And we entered into the man's house: 13 and he told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house, and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and bring hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; 14 who shall speak words to you, by which you and all your family shall be saved. 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John immersed in water; but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit. 17 Since, therefore, God gave to them the same gift as he did to us, who had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I, that I should be able to obstruct God? 18 And when they heard these things, they acquiesced, and glorified God; saying, God has, then, given to the Gentile also reformation to life.