Holman Christian Standard Bible

Acts 11:8-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. “ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth! ’

9. But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

10. “Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.

11. At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were.

12. Then the Spirit told me to accompany them with no doubts at all. These six brothers accompanied me, and we went into the man’s house.

13. He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

14. He will speak a message to you that you and all your household will be saved by.’

15. “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.