Peter’s Report at Jerusalem

11 The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 [So] when Peter went up to Jerusalem, [the] circumcised [believers][fn] took issue with him 3 [and] said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

4 But Peter began [and] explained to them the whole sequence of events: 5 “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. 6 I looked at it {closely} [and] saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’

8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure[fn] or unclean has {ever} entered my mouth.’

9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second [time], ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

11 Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house [where] I was [staying]. 12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa [for] Simon who is called Peter. 14 [He] will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’

15 [As] I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as [He had fallen] upon us at [the] beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with [the] Holy Spirit.’[fn] 17 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?”

18 [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.”