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Acts 11:14-20 New International Version (NIV)

14. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’

15. “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.

16. Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

17. So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”

18. When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

19. Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews.

20. Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.