The King's Version by N. T. Wright

Author:N. T. Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Telling the Gentiles About Jesus

11 The apostles, and the brothers and sisters with them in Judaea, heard that the Gentiles had received the word of God. 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who wanted to emphasize circumcision took issue with him.

3“Why did you do it?” they asked. “Why did you go in to visit uncircumcised men and eat with them?”

4So Peter began to explain it all, step by step.

5“I was in the town of Joppa,” he said, “and I was praying. I was in a trance, and I saw a vision: something like a great sail suspended by its four corners was let down from heaven, and came toward me. 6I stared at it; then I began to look in, and I saw four-footed land animals, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter! Kill and eat!’ 8‘Certainly not, Lord,’ I replied. ‘Nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth!’ 9Then the voice came from heaven a second time: ‘What God made clean, you must not regard as common.’ 10All this happened three times, and then the whole lot was drawn back up into heaven.

11“Just then, suddenly, three men appeared at the house where I was, sent to me from Caesarea. 12The spirit told me to go with them, without raising scrupulous objections. These six brothers also came with me, and we went into the man’s house. 13He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and fetch Simon called Peter, 14who will speak to you words by which you and all your house will be saved.’ 15As I began to speak, the holy spirit fell on them, just as the spirit did on us at the beginning. 16And I remembered the word which the Lord had spoken: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the holy spirit.’

17“So, then,” Peter concluded, “if God gave them the same gift as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus the Messiah, who was I to stand in the way of God?”

18When they heard this, they had nothing more to say. They praised God.

“Well, then,” they declared, “God has given the Gentiles, too, the repentance that leads to life!”

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