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And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,
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and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,
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saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
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And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,
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`I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;
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at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;
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and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;
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and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;
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and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
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`And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,