These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 11
Brit Hadashah 30 verses
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Now the Apostles, and the brethren in various parts of Judaea, heard that the Gentiles also had received Elohim’s Message;
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Acts 15:3 Acts 10:34-38 Isaiah 42:1 Genesis 49:10 Isaiah 62:2 Mark 16:5 Romans 15:7-12 Galatians 1:17-22 Jeremiah 16:19 Zephaniah 2:11 Acts 8:14-15 Zechariah 8:20-23 Malachi 1:11 Psalm 22:27 Isaiah 35:1-2 Acts 14:27 Isaiah 49:6 Psalm 96:1-10 Isaiah 42:6 Zephaniah 3:9 Zechariah 2:11 Hosea 2:23 Isaiah 60:3 Isaiah 11:10 Isaiah 52:10 Micah 5:7 Amos 9:11-12 Isaiah 32:15 Matthew 8:11 Luke 2:32 -
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and, when returned to , the champions of circumcision found fault with him.
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“You went into the houses of men who are not Jews,” they said, “and you ate with them.”
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, however, explained the whole matter to them from the beginning.
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“While I was in the town of Jaffa, prayer,” he said, “in a trance I saw a vision. There descended what seemed to be an enormous sail, being let down from the sky by ropes at the four corners, and it came close to me.
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- 6 Fixing my eyes on it, I examined it closely, and saw various kinds of quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.
- 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, “’Rise, , kill and eat.’
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“’On no account, Lord,’ I replied, ‘for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.’
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“But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, “’What has purified, you must not regard as unholy.’
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“This was said three times, and then everything was drawn up again out of sight.
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“Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were, having been sent from Caesarea to find me.
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- 12 And the 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.
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Then he described to us how he had seen the come and enter his house and say, “’Send to Jaffa and fetch Simon, surnamed .
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He will teach you truths by which you and all your family will be saved.’”
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“And,” said , “no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.
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- 16 Then I remembered the Lord’s words, how He used to say, “’John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy .’
- 17 “If therefore gave them the same as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord the , why, who was I to be able to thwart ?”
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This statement of Peter’s silenced his opponents. They extolled the goodness of , and said, “So, then, to the Gentiles also has given the repentance which leads to Life.”
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2 Corinthians 7:10 Romans 10:12-13 Acts 5:31 Acts 21:20 Acts 20:21 Acts 26:17-20 Ezekiel 36:26 Romans 3:29-30 Galatians 1:24 Ephesians 3:5-8 2 Timothy 2:25-26 Acts 14:27 Leviticus 10:19-20 Acts 3:26 2 Corinthians 3:18 Romans 9:30 Acts 22:21-22 Acts 3:19 James 1:16-17 Joshua 22:30 Zechariah 12:10 Isaiah 61:3 Galatians 3:26-27 Acts 11:1 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Acts 15:3 Romans 15:9-16 Ephesians 2:11-18 Isaiah 60:21 Acts 13:47-48 - 19 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.
- 20 But some of them were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on coming to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks also and told them the Good News concerning the Lord .
- 21 The power of the Lord was with them, and there were a vast number who believed and turned to the Lord.
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When tidings of this reached the ears of the Church in , they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.
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On getting there he was delighted to see the which had bestowed; and he encouraged them all to remain, with fixed resolve, faithful to the Lord.
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Acts 13:43 Acts 20:24 Colossians 1:6 2 Timothy 3:10 Acts 14:22 Acts 14:26 Deuteronomy 10:20 Proverbs 23:28 2 Corinthians 1:17 1 Corinthians 15:58 3 John 1:4 Deuteronomy 30:20 1 John 2:28 Mark 2:5 Proverbs 23:15 Acts 15:40 Psalm 17:3 2 Peter 1:4-9 1 Thessalonians 3:2-5 Hebrews 10:32-39 Hebrews 10:19-26 John 8:31-32 2 Timothy 1:4-5 Daniel 1:8 2 Peter 3:17-18 1 Thessalonians 1:3-4 Joshua 23:8 John 15:4 Acts 20:32 Matthew 16:24 Joshua 22:5 - 24 For he was a good man, and was full of the Holy and of ; and the number of believers in the Lord greatly increased.
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Then Barnabas paid a visit to Tarsus to try to find .
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- 26 He succeeded, and brought him to Antioch; and for a whole year they attended the meetings of the Church, and taught a large number of people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the of ‘Messiahians.’
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At that time certain Prophets came down from to Antioch,
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one of whom, named Agabus, being instructed by the , publicly predicted the speedy coming of a great famine throughout the world. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)
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- 29 So the disciples decided to send relief, every one in proportion to his means, to the brethren living in Judaea.
- 30 This they did, forwarding their contributions to the Elders by Barnabas and .