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"But I answered, 'I can't do that, Lord! I've never put anything impure or unclean into my mouth.'
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"A voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Don't say that the things which God has made clean are impure.'
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This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back into the sky again.
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"At that moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent from Caesarea to find me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them without any hesitation. Six believers [from Joppa] went with me, and we visited Cornelius' home.
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"He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his home. The angel told him, 'Send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man whose name is Simon Peter.
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He will give you a message that will save you and everyone in your home.'
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"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came to these people. This was the same thing that happened to us in the beginning.
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I remembered that the Lord had said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized by the Holy Spirit.'
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When they believed, God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. So who was I to interfere with God?"
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When the others heard this, they had no further objections. They praised God by saying, "Then God has also led people who are not Jewish to turn to him so that they can change the way they think and act and have eternal life."