Acts 11:17
Therefore, if God gave them the same grace, as also to us, who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I would be able to prohibit God?”
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Job 33:13Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
Matthew 20:14Take what is yours and go. But it is my will to give to this last, just as to you.
Acts 10:45And the faithful of the circumcision, who had arrived with Peter, were astonished that the grace of the Holy Spirit was also poured out upon the Gentiles.
Acts 11:15And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as upon us also, in the beginning.
Romans 9:15For to Moses he says: “I will pity whomever I pity. And I will offer mercy to whomever I will pity.”
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:2-19
Peter's Vindication. 1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great… Read the whole commentary →