011:009 "But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky,
"`What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'
011:010 "This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up
again out of sight.
011:011 "Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were,
having been sent from Caesarea to find me.
011:012 And the Spirit told me to accompany them without any misgivings.
There also went with me these six brethren who are now present,
and we reached the Centurion's house.
011:013 Then he described to us how he had seen the angel come and enter
his house and say, "`Send to Jaffa and fetch Simon, surnamed Peter.
011:014 He will teach you truths by which you and all your family
will be saved.'"
011:015 "And," said Peter, "no sooner had I begun to speak than
the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us
at the first.
011:016 Then I remembered the Lord's words, how He used to say,
"`John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
in the Holy Spirit.'
011:017 "If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we
first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I
to be able to thwart God?"
011:018 This statement of Peter's silenced his opponents. They extolled
the goodness of God, and said, "So, then, to the Gentiles
also God has given the repentance which leads to Life."
011:019 Those, however, who had been driven in various directions
by the persecution which broke out on account of Stephen made
their way to Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, delivering the Message
to none but Jews.
011:020 But some of them were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on coming