Douay Rheims Original ↷
Acts 11 📜 📕 ↷
Peter's Report at Jerusalem
1 AND the Apostles and brethren that were in Jewry, heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God.📜💬📚
2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the Circumcision reasoned against him, saying:📜💬📚
3 Why didst thou enter in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them?📜💬📚
4 But Peter began and declared to them the order, saying:📜💬📚
5 I was in the city of Joppe praying, & I saw in an excess of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending as it were a great sheet with four corners let down from heaven, & it came even unto me.📜💬📚
6 Into which I looking considered, & saw four footed beasts of the earth, & cattle, & such as creep, & fowls of the air.📜💬📚
7 And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise Peter, kill and eat.📜💬📚
8 And I said: Not so Lord; for common or unclean thing never entered into my mouth.📜💬📚
9 And a voice answered the second time from heaven: That which God hath made clean, do not thou call common.📜💬📚
10 And this was done thrice: and all were taken up again into heaven.📜💬📚
11 And behold, three men immediately were come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea.📜💬📚
12 And the spirit said to me, that I should go with them, doubting nothing. And there came with me these six brethren also: and we went into the man's house.📜💬📚
13 And he told us, how he had seen an Angel in his house, standing and saying to him: Send to Joppe, and call hither Simon, that is surnamed Peter,📜💬📚
14 who shall speak to thee words wherein thou shalt be saved and all thy house.📜💬📚
15 And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.📜💬📚
16 And I remembered the word of our Lord, according as he said: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.📜💬📚
17 If therefore God hath given them the same grace, as to us also that believed in our Lord JESUS CHRIST: who was I that might prohibit God?📜💬📚
18 Having heard these things, they held their peace: & glorified God, saying: God then to the Gentiles also hath given repentance unto life.📜💬📚
Church at Antioch
19 And they truly that had been dispersed by the tribulation that was made under Steven, walked throughout unto Phoenice & Cypres & Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.📜💬📚
20 But certain of them were men of Cypres and Cyrene, who when they were entered into Antioch, spake to the Greeks, preaching our Lord JESUS.📜💬📚
21 And the hand of our Lord was with them: and a great number of believers was converted to our Lord.📜💬📚
22 And the report came to the ears of the Church that was at Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.📜💬📚
23 Who when he was come, and saw the grace of God, rejoiced: and he exhorted all with purpose of heart to continue in our Lord:📜💬📚
24 because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and faith. And a great multitude was added to our Lord.📜💬📚
25 And he went forth to Tarsus, to seek Saul:📜💬📚
26 whom when he had found, he brought him to Antioch. And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that the Disciples were at Antioch first named CHRISTIANS.📜💬📚
27 And in these days there came Prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch,📜💬📚
28 and one of them rising, named Agabus, did by the Spirit signify a great famine that should be in the whole world, which fell under Claudius.📜💬📚
29 And the Disciples according as each man had, purposed every one to send, for to serve the brethren that dwelt in Jewry:📜💬📚
30 which also they did, sending to the ancients by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.📜💬📚
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