Gevurot 11:1-18

Orthodox Jewish Bible

11 And the Moshiach’s Shlichim and the Achim b’Moshiach, the ones throughout Yehudah, heard that also the non-Jews received the dvar Hashem.

² But when Kefa went up to Yerushalayim, those of the faction of the Bris Milah were taking issue with him,

³ Saying, "You entered into a bais of anashim arelim (uncircumcised men) and you sat at tish with them."

⁴ But Kefa began explaining to them beseder (in order), saying,

⁵ "I was davening in the shtetl of Yafo and in a trance I saw a chazon (vision) of a certain object descending like a large linen cloth lowered by four corners from Shomayim, and it came up to me.

⁶ "And when I had gazed upon it, I saw fourfooted animals of ha’aretz and chayyat hasadeh and remasim haAdamah and oph HaShomayim.

⁷ "And I heard also a bat kol saying to me, ‘Get up, Kefa. Kill and eat.’

⁸ "But I said, ‘By no means, Adoni, because nothing common or tameh (unclean) has ever entered into my stomach.’

⁹ "And the bat kol answered for a second time from Shomayim, ‘What Hashem made tahor (clean) do not declare tameh (unclean).’

¹⁰ "This happened shlosh pe’amim, and everything was pulled up again into Shomayim.

¹¹ "Hinei, at once shloshah anashim stood at the bais in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

¹² "And the Ruach Hakodesh said to me to accompany them without hesitating and these sheshet haAchim b’Moshiach came with me also, and we entered into the bais of the ish.

¹³ "He reported to us how he saw the malach in his bais having stood and having said, ‘Send to Yafo and summon Shimon, the one being called Kefa,

¹⁴ ‘Who will speak words to you by which you and all your bais will find Yeshu’at Eloheinu.’

¹⁵ "As I began to speak, the Ruach Hakodesh fell upon them, just as also upon us in the beginning.

¹⁶ And I remembered the dvar of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, how he used to say, ‘Yochanan gave a tevilah of teshuva with a mikveh mayim, but you will be given a tevilah with the Ruach Hakodesh.'

¹⁷ "If then Hashem gave the same matanah to them as also to us after believing in Moshiach Adoneinu, who then was I to stand in the way of Hashem?"

¹⁸ And having heard these things, they were silenced and glorified Hashem, saying ‘Then also to the Nations Hashem has given teshuva unto Chayyim.'