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- Acts 9:42
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This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.
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- Acts 9:43
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And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
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- Acts 10:1
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At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
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- Acts 10:4
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Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
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- Acts 10:7
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When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.
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- Acts 10:9
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The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
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- Acts 10:10
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He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
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- Acts 10:14
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“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
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- Acts 10:16
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This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.
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- Acts 10:17
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While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
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- Acts 10:19
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As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.
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- Acts 10:21
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So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here am I, the one you are looking for. Why have you come?”
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- Acts 10:22
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“Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”
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- Acts 10:23
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So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.
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- Acts 10:24
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The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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- Acts 10:25
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As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
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- Acts 10:26
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But Peter helped him up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
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- Acts 10:34
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Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
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- Acts 10:48
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So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
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- Acts 11:1
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The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
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- Acts 11:2
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So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
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- Acts 11:4
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But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:
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- Acts 11:7
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Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
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- Acts 11:8
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‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
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- Acts 11:9
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But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
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- Acts 11:10
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This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
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- Acts 11:12
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The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
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- Acts 11:13
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He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
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- Acts 11:15
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As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
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- Acts 11:16
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Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
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- Acts 11:18
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When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
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- Acts 11:20
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But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
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- Acts 11:22
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When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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- Acts 11:25
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Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
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- Acts 11:26
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and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
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- Acts 11:27
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In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
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- Acts 11:28
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One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
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- Acts 11:29
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So the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
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- Acts 12:1
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About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
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- Acts 12:2
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He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
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- Acts 12:3
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And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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- Acts 12:5
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So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
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- Acts 12:6
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On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
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- Acts 12:7
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Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
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- Acts 12:8
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“Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
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- Acts 12:9
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So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.
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- Acts 12:10
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They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.
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- Acts 12:13
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He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
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- Acts 12:14
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When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”
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- Acts 12:15
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“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
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