8But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts 11 marks a pivotal transition in the early church: the gospel officially crosses the ethnic boundary from Jews to Gentiles, and the Jerusalem church accepts it. Peter defends his visit to Cornelius’s household, recounting the vision and the Spirit’s descent. The chapter then
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