3 and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.” 4 But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
Acts 11:3–5
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Acts 11:12–14
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Acts 10:27–29
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Acts 10:33–35
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Acts 10:45–47
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Acts 15:6–8
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Acts 10:14–16
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Acts 10:20–22
20 So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.” 21 So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here am I, the one you are looking for. Why have you come?” 22 “Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous…
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