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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Acts 11 New American Bible</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</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 American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch51011" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn51011" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">The Baptism of the Gentiles Explained.<a id="rfn51011001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011001-1">*</a></span> <span id="v51011001" class="ver">1</span>Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. <span id="v51011002" class="ver">2</span>So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him, <span id="v51011003" class="ver">3</span>saying, “You entered<a id="rfn51011003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011003-1">*</a> the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.” <span id="v51011004" class="ver">4</span>Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying, <span id="v51011005" class="ver">5</span><a id="ren51011005-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011005-a">a</a> “I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me. <span id="v51011006" class="ver">6</span>Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky. <span id="v51011007" class="ver">7</span>I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’ <span id="v51011008" class="ver">8</span>But I said, ‘Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ <span id="v51011009" class="ver">9</span>But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’ <span id="v51011010" class="ver">10</span>This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky. <span id="v51011011" class="ver">11</span>Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea. <span id="v51011012" class="ver">12</span>The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers<a id="rfn51011012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011012-1">*</a> also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. <span id="v51011013" class="ver">13</span>He related to us how he had seen [the] angel standing in his house, saying, ‘Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,<a id="ren51011013-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011013-b">b</a> <span id="v51011014" class="ver">14</span>who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.’ <span id="v51011015" class="ver">15</span>As I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning,<a id="ren51011015-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011015-c">c</a> <span id="v51011016" class="ver">16</span>and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.’<a id="ren51011016-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011016-d">d</a> <span id="v51011017" class="ver">17</span>If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?”<a id="ren51011017-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011017-e">e</a> <span id="v51011018" class="ver">18</span>When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Church at Antioch.<a id="rfn51011019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011019-1">*</a></span> <span id="v51011019" class="ver">19</span>Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that arose because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but Jews.<a id="ren51011019-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011019-f">f</a> <span id="v51011020" class="ver">20</span>There were some Cypriots and Cyrenians among them, however, who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the Lord Jesus. <span id="v51011021" class="ver">21</span>The hand of the Lord was with them and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. <span id="v51011022" class="ver">22</span>The news about them reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas [to go] to Antioch. <span id="v51011023" class="ver">23</span>When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord in firmness of heart, <span id="v51011024" class="ver">24</span>for he was a good man, filled with the holy Spirit and faith. And a large number of people was added to the Lord. <span id="v51011025" class="ver">25</span>Then he went to Tarsus to look for Saul, <span id="v51011026" class="ver">26</span>and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a large number of people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.<a id="rfn51011026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011026-1">*</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Prediction of Agabus.<a id="rfn51011027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011027-1">*</a></span> <span id="v51011027" class="ver">27</span>At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch, <span id="v51011028" class="ver">28</span>and one of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine all over the world, and it happened under Claudius.<a id="ren51011028-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011028-g">g</a> <span id="v51011029" class="ver">29</span>So the disciples determined that, according to ability,<a id="ren51011029-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en51011029-h">h</a> each should send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea. <span id="v51011030" class="ver">30</span><a id="rfn51011030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn51011030-1">*</a> This they did, sending it to the presbyters in care of Barnabas and Saul.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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