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32 Send therefore to Ioppa, and call for Simon, to men vncircumcised, and hast eaten with them.
whose surname is Peter (he is lodged in the house 4 Then Peter beganne, and expounded the thing
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of Simon a Tanner by the sea side) who when in order to them, saying, I was in the citie of
he commeth, shall speake vnto thee. 33 Then Ioppa, praying, and in a trance I sawe this vision,
sent I for thee immediately, and thou hast well A certaine vessell comming downe as it had bene
done to come. Nowe therefore are we all here a great sheete, let downe from heauen by the
present before God, to heare all things that are foure corners, and it came to me. 6 Towarde
commanded thee of God. 34 Then Peter opened the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I
his mouth, and sayd, Of a trueth I perceiue, considered, and sawe foure footed beastes of the
that God is no accepter of persons. 35 But in earth, and wilde beastes, and creeping things,
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euery nation he that feareth him, and worketh and foules of the heauen. Also I heard a voyce,
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righteousnesse, is accepted with him. 36 Ye know saying vnto me, Arise, Peter: slay and eate. And
the worde which God hath sent to the children I said, God forbid, Lord: for nothing polluted or
of Israel, preaching peace by Iesus Christ, which vncleane hath at any time entred into my mouth.
is Lord of all: 37 Euen the worde which came 9 But the voyce answered me the seconde time
through all Iudea, beginning in Galile, after the from heauen, The things that God hath purified,
baptisme which Iohn preached. 38 To wit, howe pollute thou not. 10 And this was done three
God anointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy times, and all were taken vp againe into heauen.
Ghost, and with power: who went about doing 11 Then behold, immediatly there were three men
good, and healing all that were oppressed of already come vnto the house where I was, sent
the deuill: for God was with him. 39 And we from Cesarea vnto me. 12 And the Spirit saide
are witnesses of all things which he did both in vnto me, that I should go with them, without
the land of the Iewes, and in Hierusalem, whom doubting: moreouer these sixe brethren came
they slewe, hanging him on a tree. 40 Him God with me, and we entred into the mans house.
raysed vp the third day, and caused that he was 13 And he shewed vs, howe he had seene an
shewed openly: 41 Not to all the people, but vnto Angel in his house, which stoode and said to him,
the witnesses chosen before of God, euen to vs Send men to Ioppa, and call for Simon, whose
which did eate and drinke with him, after he surname is Peter. 14 He shall speake wordes vnto
arose from the dead. 42 And he commanded vs thee, whereby both thou and all thine house
to preach vnto the people, and to testifie, that it shalbe saued. 15 And as I began to speake, the
is he that is ordained of God a iudge of quicke holy Ghost fell on them, euen as vpon vs at the
and dead. 43 To him also giue all the Prophets beginning. 16 Then I remembred the word of the
witnesse, that through his Name all that beleeue Lord, howe he said, Iohn baptized with water, but
in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes. 44 While ye shalbe baptized with the holy Ghost. 17 For
Peter yet spake these wordes, the holy Ghost
fell on al them which heard the word. 45 So as much then as God gaue them a like gift, as
they of the circumcision which beleeued, were he did vnto vs, when we beleeued in the Lord
astonied, as many as came with Peter, because Iesus Christ, who was I, that I coulde let God?
When they heard these things, they helde their
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that on the Gentiles also was powred out the gift peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God
of the holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speake also to the Gentiles graunted repentance vnto
with tongues, and magnifie God. Then answered life. 19 And they which were scattered abroade
Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these because of the affliction that arose about Steuen,
should not be baptized, which haue receiued the went throughout till they came vnto Phenice and
holy Ghost, as well as we? 48 So he commanded Cyprus, and Antiochia, preaching the worde to no
them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. man, but vnto the Iewes onely. 20 Now some of
Then prayed they him to tary certaine dayes. them were men of Cyprus and of Cyrene, which
11 when they were come into Antiochia, spake vnto
the Grecians, and preached the Lord Iesus.
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1 Nowe the Apostles and the brethren that the hand of the Lord was with them, so that a
were in Iudea, heard, that the Gentiles had also great number beleeued and turned vnto the Lord.
receiued the worde of God. And when Peter was 22 Then tydings of those things came vnto the
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come vp to Hierusalem, they of the circumcision eares of the Church, which was in Hierusalem,
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contended against him, Saying, Thou wentest in