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Acts 11:18
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16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, a‘John indeed baptized with water, but byou shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’  
17 aIf therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, bwho was I that I could withstand God?”  
18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, a“Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”  

Barnabas and Saul at Antioch

19 aNow those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only.  
20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to athe Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.  
21 And athe hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and bturned to the Lord.  
22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out aBarnabas to go as far as Antioch.  
23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and aencouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.  
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Acts 11:18

They held their peace - They were convinced, as Peter had been, by the manifest indications of the will of God.

Then hath God ... - The great truth in this manner established that the doors of the church are opened To the entire Gentile world - a truth that was worthy of this remarkable interposition. It at once changed the views of the apostles and of the early Christians; gave them new, large, and liberal conceptions of the gospel; broke down their long-cherished prejudices; taught them to look upon all people as their brethren; impressed their hearts with the truth, never after to be eradicated, that the Christian church was founded for the wide world, and that it opened the same glorious pathway to life wherever man might be found, whether with the narrow prejudice of the Jew, or amidst the degradations of the pagan world. To this truth we owe our hopes; for this, we should thank the God of heaven; and, impressed with it, we should seek to invite the entire world to partake with us of the rich provisions of the gospel of the blessed God.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Acts 11:18:

Jonah 1:1
John 6:37
2 Timothy 2:25

 

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