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I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'
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But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
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But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'
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This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
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Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.
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He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,
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who will speak to you words whereby you will be saved, you and all your house.'
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As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
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I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
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If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"