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And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter; kill and eat.'
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But I said, 'Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth.'
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But the voice answered me again from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'
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Now this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
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At that very moment, three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.
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Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
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And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, 'Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter,
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who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.'
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And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning.
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Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"