Acts 11:9-19

9 But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, do not call common.'

10 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.

11 And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.

12 And the Spirit told me to go with them, ¹making no distinction. ²These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.

13 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, 'Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter;

14 ³he will declare to you a message by which ⁴you will be saved, you and all your household.'

15 As I began to speak, ⁵the Holy Spirit fell on them ⁶just as on us at the beginning.

16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ⁷'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

17 If then ⁸God gave ⁹the same gift to them as he gave to us ¹⁰when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, ¹¹who was I ¹²that I could stand in God's way?"

18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they ¹³glorified God, saying, ¹⁴"Then to the Gentiles also God has ¹⁵granted ¹⁶repentance that leads to life."

The Church in Antioch

19 ¹⁷Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.