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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 11 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Acts 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/10.htm" title="Acts 10">◄</a> Acts 11 <a href="../acts/12.htm" title="Acts 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/acts/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Peter Explains His Actions</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Soon the news reached the apostles and other believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> in Judea that the Gentiles had received the word of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> criticized him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“You entered the home of Gentiles<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> and even ate with them!” they said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Peter told them exactly what had happened. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“I was in the town of Joppa,” he said, “and while I was praying, I went into a trance and saw a vision. Something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners from the sky. And it came right down to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When I looked inside the sheet, I saw all sorts of tame and wild animals, reptiles, and birds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I heard a voice say, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“‘No, Lord,’ I replied. ‘I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure or unclean.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This happened three times before the sheet and all it contained was pulled back up to heaven.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Just then three men who had been sent from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were staying. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The Holy Spirit told me to go with them and not to worry that they were Gentiles. These six brothers here accompanied me, and we soon entered the home of the man who had sent for us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He told us how an angel had appeared to him in his home and had told him, ‘Send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man named Simon Peter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will tell you how you and everyone in your household can be saved!’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“As I began to speak,” Peter continued, “the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then I thought of the Lord’s words when he said, <span class="red">‘John baptized with<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And since God gave these Gentiles the same gift he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to stand in God’s way?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When the others heard this, they stopped objecting and began praising God. They said, “We can see that God has also given the Gentiles the privilege of repenting of their sins and receiving eternal life.”</p><p class="hdg">The Church in Antioch of Syria</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephen’s death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They preached the word of God, but only to Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> about the Lord Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When the church at Jerusalem heard what had happened, they sent Barnabas to Antioch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> were first called Christians.)</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">those of the circumcision.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">of uncircumcised men.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:8 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">anything common or unclean.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in;</span><span class="ft"> also in 11:16b.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:20 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">the Hellenists</span><span class="ft"> (i.e., those who speak Greek); other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">the Greeks.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:26 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">disciples;</span><span class="ft"> also in 11:29.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:29 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">the brothers.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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