8. “But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord! For never has anything unholy or unclean entered my mouth.’
9. But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.’
10. This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven.
11. “At that very moment, three men arrived at the house where we were, sent to me from Caesarea.
12. The Ruach told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
13. He reported to us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter.
14. He will speak words to you by which you will be saved—you and all your household.’
15. “As I began to speak, the Ruach ha-Kodesh fell on them, just as on us at the beginning.
16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John immersed with water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.’
17. Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us after we put our trust in the Lord Messiah Yeshua, who was I to stand in God’s way?”
18. When they heard this they became quiet, and they glorified God, saying, “Then even to the Gentiles God has granted repentance leading to life!”
19. Now those scattered because of the persecution that happened in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Judeans.
20. However, there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Hellenists also, proclaiming the Lord Yeshua.
21. The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
22. News about these things reached the ears of the community in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.