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and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
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But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:
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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
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I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
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Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
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‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
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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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This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
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Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
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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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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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He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
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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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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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So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
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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.”