14. he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
15. As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
17. If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”
18. When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”
19. Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.
20. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
22. The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.