Acts 11:17

So if God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus, who was I to be able to withstand God?”

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In The King James Version

Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

In Context

16I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit.’

18Upon hearing these things they acquiesced and started glorifying God, saying, “So then, God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance into life!”

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Cross References

Matthew 20:14Take what is yours and go. I wish to give to this last one just as to you.

Acts 10:45Well the believers of the circumcision [Jews] who had come with Peter were astonished, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had also been poured out on the Gentiles,

Acts 11:15Well as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning.

Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”

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 →

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