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1Back in the Land of Promise (Judea) , the message bearers and other followers of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) heard that people from the Outside Nations had welcomed Creator’s message.
2So when Stands on the Rock (Peter) returned to Village of Peace (Jerusalem) , the strict Tribal Members there began to question him.
3“How is it that you went into the house of Outsiders and ate with them?” they asked.
4So he told them, step by step, the journey he had been on.
5“In the Village of Beauty (Joppa) , where I was lodging, I was sending my voice to the Great Spirit. I went into a trance and was given a sacred vision. I saw something that looked like a large, soft blanket coming down from the sky, being lowered by its four corners. As it came near to me,
6I looked into it wondering what it was. I saw four-legged animals of the land, wild animals, snakes, creeping things, and winged ones who soar in the sky.
7“Then I heard a Voice say, ‘Stands on the Rock (Peter) , kill and eat.’
8“‘I cannot! O Honored One,’ I answered, ‘I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.’
9“Then the Voice from the spirit-world above spoke to me a second time, ‘If Creator has made it clean, then you must not consider it impure.’
10“This happened three times. Then the blanket was taken back up into the spirit-world above.
11Right then three men who had been sent to me from Chief Village (Caesarea) arrived at the house where we were lodging.
12The Spirit told me to have no doubts about going with them. So I and six spiritual brothers went to the man’s house and were welcomed inside.
13“The man of the house told us how he had seen a spirit-messenger standing in his house. The messenger told him to send a message to Village of Beauty (Joppa) to One Who Hears (Simon) , who is also named Stands on the Rock (Peter) ,
14who will tell you and all your family and friends how to be set free and made whole.
15“Just as I was beginning to speak to them, the Holy Spirit came down upon them in the same manner he did for us at first.
16Then I remembered what our Wisdomkeeper had said to us: ‘He Shows Goodwill (John) performed the purification ceremony with water, but you will participate in the purification ceremony with the Holy Spirit.’[#11:16 Baptism]
17“If Creator gave them the same gift he gave to us when we put our trust in our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) , the Chosen One, who was I to stand in the way of the Great Spirit?”
18When they heard these words, they sat there in silence with nothing to say. Then they gave honor to Creator.
“So then,” they said with wondering voices , “the Great Spirit has also given the Outside Nations the way to return to the path of life.”
19The ones who had been scattered because of the persecution that began when Many Feathers (Stephen) was killed had made their way as far as Land of Palm Trees (Phoenicia) , Island of Flowers (Cyprus) , and Stands Against (Antioch) . They were telling the good story, but only to the Tribal Members, not to anyone from the Outside Nations.
20But there were others, men from Island of Flowers (Cyprus) and Land of Power (Cyrene) , who came to Stands Against (Antioch) and began to tell the Wisdom Seekers (Greeks) from Outside Nations about Creator Sets Free (Jesus) , our Honored Chief.
21The strong hand of the Great Spirit was with them, and a large number of them trusted in our Honored Chief.
22Word of this came to the ears of the sacred family in Village of Peace (Jerusalem) .
23-24So they sent to them Son of Comfort (Barnabas) , a good-hearted man who was full of the Holy Spirit and faith. When he saw Creator’s great kindness at work in them, it made his heart glad. He then spoke wise counsel to them, telling them to have brave hearts and to stand strong, looking to our Honored Chief.
25So he went to Tree Village (Tarsus) to look for Man Who Questions (Saul) .
26When he found him, he took him back to Stands Against (Antioch) . For a whole year they gathered there, together with the sacred family. There they taught a large number of people. It was in the village of Stands Against (Antioch) that the followers of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) were first called Followers of the Chosen One.
27It was in those days that some prophets came down from Village of Peace (Jerusalem) to the village of Stands Against (Antioch) .
28One of them, named Grasshopper (Agabus) , foretold by the Spirit that soon there would be a shortage of food all over the territory of the People of Iron (Romans) . This happened during the rule of Walks with a Limp (Claudius) .
29So the followers who lived in Stands Against (Antioch) decided to send help to the sacred family in the Land of Promise (Judea) —as much as they could spare.
30Son of Comfort (Barnabas) and Man Who Questions (Saul) hand-carried the gifts to the elders.