Acts 11:4

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But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

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  • Luke 1:3 : 3 So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.
  • Josh 22:21-31 : 21 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans: 22 “El, God, the LORD! El, God, the LORD! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the LORD, don’t spare us today! 23 If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us. 24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel? 25 The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD. 26 So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, 27 but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’ 28 We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’ 29 Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!” 30 When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and Israel’s clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, they were satisfied. 31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,“Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not disobeyed the LORD in this. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD’s judgment.”
  • Prov 15:1 : 1 A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

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    5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

    6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

    7I also heard a voice saying to me,‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’

    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

    10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

    11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

    12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

    13He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

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    15Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

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    1Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

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    8and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

    9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

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    11He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

    12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

    13Then a voice said to him,“Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”

    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

    15The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

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    18They called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, was staying there as a guest.

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    5Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

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