And it was reported to the apostles and the brothers in Yehuda that the peoples also had received the word of Elohim.

And when Shimon went up to Urishlim, those who were of the circumcision were contending with him,

saying that he had gone in to uncircumcised men and had eaten with them.

And Shimon began to speak to them step by step:

While I was praying in Yopa, I saw in a vision that a certain vessel came down, one that was like a linen cloth, and it was tied at its four corners, and it was let down from heaven and came as far as me.

And I looked into it and saw that there were in it four-footed animals and creeping things of the earth and also birds of heaven.

And I heard a voice that was saying to me, Shimon, get up, kill and eat.

And I said, Far be it, my Master, for never has anything polluted or unclean entered my mouth.

And again a voice said to me from heaven, What Elohim has cleansed, you do not make unclean.

This happened three times, and everything was taken up to heaven.

And at that very hour three men who were sent to me from Qorneliyos from Qesariya came and stood at the gate of the courtyard where I was lodging.

And the Ruach said to me, Go with them without hesitation. And these six brothers also came with me, and we entered the man's house.

And he related to us how he saw a messenger in his house, who stood and said to him, Send to the city of Yopa and bring Shimon who is called Keefa.

And he will speak with you words by which you will live, you and all your house.

And when I had begun there to speak, the Ruach haKodesh overshadowed them, as it did us from the beginning.

And I remembered the word of our Master, who said, Yochanan immersed with water, but you will be immersed with the Ruach haKodesh.

If then Elohim equally gave the gift to the peoples who believed in our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach, as also to us, who was I that I could forbid Elohim?

And when they heard these words, they were silent, and they glorified Elohim and were saying, Now Elohim has also given to the peoples repentance to life.

Now those who were scattered by the oppression that happened over Stephen reached as far as Phoenicia and also to the land of Cyprus and to Antioch, speaking the word with no one except only with Jews.

But there were some of them from Cyprus and from Cyrene who went up to Antioch and were speaking with the Greeks and proclaiming about our Master Y'shua.

And the hand of Master YHWH was with them, and many believed and turned to Master YHWH.

And this was heard in the ears of the sons of the assembly that is in Urishlim, and they sent Bar-Naba to Antioch.

And when he came there and saw the grace of Elohim, he rejoiced and was seeking from them that with all their heart they would cling to our Master.

For he was a good man and was full of the Ruach haKodesh and of faith. And a great people was added to our Master.

And he went out to Tarsos to seek for Shaul.

And when he found him, he brought him with him to Antiyokya. And a whole year they were assembling together in the assembly, and they taught a great many people. From then the disciples were first called Christians in Antiyokya.

And in those days prophets came there from Urishlim.

And one of them whose name was Agabus stood up and made known to them by the Ruach that a great famine was going to be in all the land. And this famine happened in the days of Claudius Caesar.

But the disciples, each one of them according to what he had, set aside to send for the service of the brothers who dwell in Yehuda.

And they sent by the hand of Barnaba and Shaul to the elders there.