46. ибо слышали их говорящих языками и величающих Бога. Тогда Петр сказал:

47. кто может запретить креститься водою тем, которые, как и мы, получили Святаго Духа?

48. И велел им креститься во имя Иисуса Христа. Потом они просили его пробыть у них несколько дней.

Глава 11

1. Услышали Апостолы и братия, бывшие в Иудее, что и язычники приняли слово Божие.

2. И когда Петр пришел в Иерусалим, обрезанные упрекали его,

3. говоря: ты ходил к людям необрезанным и ел с ними.

4. And Peter began to tell them in order, saying:

5. In the city of Joppa I was praying, and in a frenzy I saw a vision: a certain vessel came down, like a great cloth, descending from heaven at the four corners, and came down to me.

6. I looked into it, and as I looked at it, I saw the four-legged creatures of the earth, the beasts, the creeping things, and the birds of the air.

7. And I heard a voice saying to me, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat."

8. But I said, "No, Lord, nothing filthy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth."

9. And a voice answered me a second time from heaven, "What God has cleansed, do not consider unclean."

10. This happened three times, and again everything went up to heaven.

11. And so, at that very hour, three men stood in front of the house in which I was, sent from Caesarea to me.

12. The Spirit told me to go with them without the slightest doubt. And these six brethren went with me, and we came to the house of the man.

13. He told us how he saw an angel (a saint) in his house, who stood up and said to him, "Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is called Peter;

14. He will tell you the words by which you and all your household will be saved.

15. And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came upon them, as He did upon us in the beginning.

16. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, "John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

17. If, then, God has given them the same gift as we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who am I that I should be able to hinder God?

18. When they heard this, they calmed down and glorified God, saying, "It seems, God has also given the Gentiles repentance unto life."

19. Meanwhile, those who were scattered from the persecution that followed Stephen went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one except the Jews.

20. And there were some of them, Cypriots and Cyrenians, who came to Antioch and spoke to the Greeks, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

21. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number, having believed, turned to the Lord.

22. Word of this reached the church of Jerusalem, and they commissioned Barnabas to go to Antioch.

23. When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and exhorted everyone to hold fast to the Lord with a sincere heart;

24. for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great number of people were gathered to the Lord.