MODERN LITERAL VERSION

11:1 Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God.
11:2 And when Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision argued with him,
11:3 saying, You went to men uncircumcised and ate with them.

11:4 But Peter began and expounded the matter to them afterwards, saying,
11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying and I saw a vision while in a trance, a certain vessel coming down, like a great sheet dropping down from heaven by four edges, and it came to me.
11:6 I considered it, having stared into it, and I saw the four footed mammals of the earth and other beasts and reptiles and birds of the heaven.

11:7 And I heard a voice saying to me, Stand up Peter; sacrifice and eat .

11:8 But I said, Not-so, Lord, because anything common or unclean has never* entered into my mouth.

11:9 But a voice answered me the second time from heaven, What God has cleansed, you, do not make common.
11:10 And this happened three times and all were pulled up again into heaven.
11:11 And behold, promptly three men stood by the house in which we were, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
11:12 And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. And these six brethren also came with me, and we entered into the man's house.
11:13 And he reported to us how he had seen the messenger standing in his house and saying to him, Send men to Joppa and send for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
11:14 who will speak the words to you, in which you will be saved, you and all your house.
11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just-like upon us in the beginning.
11:16 And I remembered the declaration of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed* in water, but you* will be immersed* in the Holy Spirit.
11:17 Therefore, if God gave to them the equal gift like he also did to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now who was I, that I could forbid God?
11:18 But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorified God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance toward life to the Gentiles.
{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}

11:19 Therefore indeed, they who were dispersed from the affliction which happened upon Stephen, went to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except only to the Jews.
11:20 But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come into Antioch, also spoke to the Grecian Jews, proclaiming the Lord Jesus.
11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.
{42 AD. Jerusalem to Antioch. Herod Agrippa receives kingdom of Judea & Samaria.}

11:22 And the account concerning them was heard in the ears of the congregation* that was in Jerusalem. And they sent forth Barnabas to Antioch;
11:23 who, having come and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged all with purpose of heart to remain with the Lord,
11:24 because he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a considerable crowd was added to the Lord.
{43-44 AD. Claudius goes to Britain.}

11:25 And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus to seek Saul;
11:26 and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened, they were gathered together with the congregation* a whole year and taught a considerable crowd, and the disciples were first divinely-called– Christians, in Antioch.

11:27 Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and he signified through the Spirit that a great famine is about to be upon all the inhabited-earth; which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar.
11:29 And the disciples, according to what was their prosperity, determined to send a service of relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea;
11:30 which they also did, having sent it to the elders through the hand s of Barnabas and Saul.
{March 44 AD. Jerusalem.}