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Acts 11:7-16 Amplified Bible (AMP)

7. And I heard a voice saying to me, Get up, Peter; kill and eat.

8. But I said, No, by no means, Lord; for nothing common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean has ever entered my mouth.

9. But the voice answered a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding or calling it common or unhallowed or unclean.

10. This occurred three times, and then all was drawn up again into heaven.

11. And right then the three men sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house in which we were.

12. And the [Holy] Spirit instructed me to accompany them without [the least] hesitation or misgivings or discrimination. So these six brethren accompanied me also, and we went into the man's house.

13. And he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house which stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa and bring Simon who is surnamed Peter;

14. He will give and explain to you a message by means of which you and all your household [as well] will be saved [from eternal death].

15. When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as He did on us at the beginning. [Acts 2:1-4.]

16. Then I recalled the declaration of the Lord, how He said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with (be placed in, introduced into) the Holy Spirit.