Acts 10:45-11:18 All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴⁵ All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, ⁴⁷ "Can any man keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit as we have." ⁴⁸ So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days. ¹¹ ¹ The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. ² So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, ³ saying, "You went into the houses of uncircumcised men and ate with them." ⁴ But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events: ⁵ “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me. ⁶ I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. ⁷ Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!' ⁸ But I replied, 'Absolutely not, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth!' ⁹ But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ ¹⁰ And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again. ¹¹ Just then, three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. ¹² The Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. ¹³ He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. ¹⁴ He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’ ¹⁵ As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as He had come upon us at the beginning. ¹⁶ Then I remembered what the Lord had said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' ¹⁷ So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could oppose God?" ¹⁸ When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”