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Text -- Acts 11:1-16 (NET)
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Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church
11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God .
11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem , the circumcised believers took issue with him ,
11:3 saying , “You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them .”
11:4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point , saying ,
11:5 “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 .
11:6 As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth , wild animals , reptiles , and wild birds .
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me , ‘Get up , Peter ; slaughter and eat !’
11:8 But I said , ‘Certainly not , Lord , for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth !’
11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven , ‘What God has made clean , you must not consider ritually unclean !’
11:10 This happened three times , and then everything was pulled up to heaven again .
11:11 At that very moment , three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying .
11:12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation . These six brothers also went with me , and we entered the man’s house .
11:13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying , ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon , who is called Peter ,
11:14 who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved .’
11:15 Then as I began to speak , the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning .
11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord , as he used to say , ‘John baptized with water , but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit .’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Peter |
Gentiles |
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 |
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 |
MINISTRY |
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Clean |
TRANCE |
TONGUES, GIFT OF |
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT |
Baptism |
Bigotry |
Holy Spirit |
TEACH; TEACHER; TEACHING |
UNCLEANNESS |
UNCIRCUMCISED; UNCIRCUMCISION |
WILD BEAST |
ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Circumcision |
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NET Notes -> Act 11:1; Act 11:1; Act 11:2; Act 11:2; Act 11:2; Act 11:3; Act 11:3; Act 11:4; Act 11:5; Act 11:5; Act 11:5; Act 11:6; Act 11:6; Act 11:6; Act 11:7; Act 11:8; Act 11:9; Act 11:11; Act 11:11; Act 11:11; Act 11:11; Act 11:11; Act 11:12; Act 11:14; Act 11:15; Act 11:15; Act 11:15; Act 11:16; Act 11:16; Act 11:16
NET Notes: Act 11:1 Here the phrase “word of God” is another way to describe the gospel (note the preceding verb ἐδέξαντ...
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NET Notes: Act 11:2 Or “believers disputed with,” “believers criticized” (BDAG 231 s.v. διακρίνω 5.b).
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NET Notes: Act 11:3 Or “and ate with.” It was table fellowship and the possibility of eating unclean food that disturbed them.
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NET Notes: Act 11:4 Or “to them in logical sequence,” “to them in order.” BDAG 490 s.v. καθεξῆς has “exp...
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NET Notes: Act 11:6 Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) ...
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NET Notes: Act 11:7 Or “kill.” Traditionally θῦσον (quson) is translated “kill,” but in the case of animals intended for...
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NET Notes: Act 11:8 Possibly there is a subtle distinction in meaning between κοινός (koinos) and ἀκάθαρτ...
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NET Notes: Act 11:12 Six witnesses is three times more than what would normally be required. They could confirm the events were not misrepresented by Peter.
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NET Notes: Act 11:14 Grk “words” (ῥήματα, rJhmata), but in this context the overall message is meant rather than the individual...
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NET Notes: Act 11:15 At the beginning is an allusion to Acts 2 and Pentecost. The beginning is a way to refer to the start of the period of the realization of Jesus’...
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