Acts 11
Open in the reader1The emissaries and brothers throughout Land-of-the-Praised soon heard that the Nations also had received the word of God.
2So when Stone went up to Foundation-of-Peace, the circumcised believers took issue with him
3and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
4But Stone began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:
5“I was in the city of Fair 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.
6I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Stone, kill and eat.’
8‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
10This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
11Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
13He told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Fair for Heard who is called Stone.
14He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
15As I began to speak, the Devoted Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
16Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘He-Who-Is-Has-Shown-Favor baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Devoted Spirit.’
17So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord He-Who-Is-Saves The-Anointed-One, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
18When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Nations repentance unto life.”
19Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Crown traveled as far as Palm-Land, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Praised-Ones.
20But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greek-Speaking-Jew as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord He-Who-Is-Saves.
21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
22When news of this reached the ears of the assembly in Foundation-of-Peace, they sent Son-of-Encouragement to Antioch.
23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
24Son-of-Encouragement was a good man, full of the Devoted Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
25Then Son-of-Encouragement went to Tarsus to look for Asked-For,
26and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the assembly and taught large numbers of people. The apprentices were first called Anointed-One-Followers at Antioch.
27In those days some prophets came down from Foundation-of-Peace to Antioch.
28One of them named Locust stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
29So the apprentices, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Land-of-the-Praised.
30This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Son-of-Encouragement and Asked-For.