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And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.
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And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
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And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into heaven.
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And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea.
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And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we entered into the man’s house.
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And he told us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing and saying to him: Send to Joppe and call hither Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
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Who shall speak to thee words whereby thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.
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And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.
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And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
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If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?
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Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.