Acts 11:17

If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I stand in God's way?”

Text-Critical English NT

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

16Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

18When the apostles and brothers heard this, they ceased their objections and began glorifying God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted the repentance that leads to life.”

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Cross References

Matthew 20:14Take what is yoʋrs and go. I wish to give to this last man just as I gave to yoʋ.

Acts 10:45All the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were astonished, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was being poured out even on the Gentiles.

Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as he had fallen upon us at the beginning.

Romans 9:15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom 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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