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Acts 11

Acts 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records that Saint Peter defends his visit to Cornelius in Caesarea and retells his vision prior to the meeting as well as the pouring of Holy Spirit during the meeting. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.

Contents

Text

The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 30 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • Papyrus 127 (5th century; extant: verses 2-5, 30)
  • Codex Laudianus (ca. AD 550)
  • Location

    This chapter mentions the following places:

  • Antioch
  • Caesarea
  • Joppa
  • Jerusalem
  • Judea
  • Tarsus
  • Structure

    This chapter can be grouped:

  • Acts 11:1-18 = Peter Defends God’s Grace
  • Acts 11:19-26 = Barnabas and Saul at Antioch
  • Acts 11:27-30 = Relief to Judea
  • Verse 17

    [Simon Peter said to the assembly:] “If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?”

    Verse 18

    When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”

    Verse 26

    [The man in Cornelius's vision said:] And when he (Barnabas) had found him (Saul or Paul of Tarsus), he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

    References

    Acts 11 Wikipedia