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But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '[The things] which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'
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And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again.
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And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were [staying].
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And the Spirit told me to accompany them, not hesitating [at all]. So these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man's house.
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And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter,
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who will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
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And [as] I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning.
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And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us [when we] believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I [to be] able to hinder God?"
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And [when they] heard these [things], they became silent and praised God, saying, "Then God has granted the repentance [leading] to life to the Gentiles also!"
Developments in the Church in Antioch
19 Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone.