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Acts 11:17

If then God equally gave the gift to the Gentiles that believed in our Lord Jesus Messiah, as he did to us: who was I, that I could forbid God?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

16And I remembered the word of our Lord, when he said: John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

18And when they heard these words, they desisted; and they glorified God and said: Now to the Gentiles also doth God give repentance unto life.

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Cross References

Matthew 20:14Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I am disposed to give to this last, as to thee.

Acts 10:45And the circumcised brethren who came with him, were amazed and astonished, that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

Acts 11:15And when I there commenced speaking, the Holy Spirit overshadowed them, as it did us from the beginning.

Romans 9:15Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful.

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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