| 1 | And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God; |
| 2 | and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him, |
| 3 | saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them. |
| 4 | But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in order, saying, |
| 5 | I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me: |
| 6 | on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven. |
| 7 | And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat. |
| 8 | And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth. |
| 9 | And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common. |
| 10 | And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven; |
| 11 | and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea. |
| 12 | And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man, |
| 13 | and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter, |
| 14 | who shall speak words to thee whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house. |
| 15 | And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them even as upon us also at the beginning. |
| 16 | And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with [the] Holy Spirit. |
| 17 | If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God? |
| 18 | And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life. |
| 19 | They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone. |
| 20 | But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus. |
| 21 | And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. |
| 22 | And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch: |
| 23 | who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord; |
| 24 | for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord. |
| 25 | And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul. |
| 26 | And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. |
| 27 | Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch; |
| 28 | and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius. |
| 29 | And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them]; |
| 30 | which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. |