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Acts 11 — Peter’s report and the Church at Antioch — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Acts 1–28 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Acts 11 — Peter’s report and the Church at Antioch

Peter explains the Gentiles’ reception

Verse 11:1

Greek–English Translation

The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had received the word of God.

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Verse 11:2

Greek–English Translation

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision disputed with him,

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Verse 11:3

Greek–English Translation

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The complaint concerns entering and eating with uncircumcised men, not a claim that Peter himself had abandoned circumcision.

Verse 11:4

Greek–English Translation

Peter began explaining to them in order, saying,

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Verse 11:5

Greek–English Translation

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: something like a large sheet descending, lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came right to me.

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Verse 11:6

Greek–English Translation

I looked intently into it and examined it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: This retelling explicitly includes wild animals as a separate group; the additional named group is preserved without retrospectively inserting it into 10:12.

Verse 11:7

Greek–English Translation

I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; slaughter and eat.’

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Verse 11:8

Greek–English Translation

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Or is the selected conjunction here, unlike and in 10:14. Entered my mouth is also retained rather than replaced by the earlier account’s eaten.

Verse 11:9

Greek–English Translation

A voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you must not call common.’

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Verse 11:10

Greek–English Translation

This happened three times, and everything was drawn up again into heaven.

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Verse 11:11

Greek–English Translation

And look, at once three men stood at the house where we were, sent to me from Caesarea.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Three and where we were are the selected readings. The number was not supplied where 10:19 left it unstated.

Verse 11:12

Greek–English Translation

The Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The selected active diakrinanta can express making no distinction; no hesitation is also a contextual possibility related to 10:20. The six accompanying brothers are explicitly counted in this retelling.

Verse 11:13

Greek–English Translation

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon who is called Peter,

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Verse 11:14

Greek–English Translation

who will speak words to you by which you and your whole household will be saved.’

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: This promised saving effect is explicit in the retelling. It is not inserted into the shorter wording of the earlier report at 10:32.

Verse 11:15

Greek–English Translation

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as upon us at the beginning.

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Verse 11:16

Greek–English Translation

I remembered the Lord’s word, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

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Verse 11:17

Greek–English Translation

If, then, God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Same gift renders isēn, equal gift. The participle having believed grammatically accompanies us while the comparison links both recipients; no alternative hierarchy of gifts is added.

Verse 11:18

Greek–English Translation

When they heard these things, they fell silent and glorified God, saying, “Then God has granted even the Gentiles repentance leading to life.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Repentance is God’s granted gift here, and eis zōēn states its direction or result: life.

The growing community at Antioch

Verse 11:19

Greek–English Translation

Those who had been scattered by the affliction that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews alone.

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Verse 11:20

Greek–English Translation

But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene who came to Antioch and also spoke to the Hellenists, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The selected source prints Hellēnistas, Hellenists, not Hellēnas, Greeks. The term’s exact scope here is disputed, particularly in relation to 11:19: it may designate Greek-speaking non-Jews in this setting, while elsewhere it names Greek-speaking Jews. The translation preserves the actual term rather than silently adopting the alternate reading or asserting one ethnicity as certain. Evidence: SBL-ACTS-APP, 11:20 lists Hellenists with WH/RP/NA28 and Greeks with Treg/NIV.

Verse 11:21

Greek–English Translation

The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

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Verse 11:22

Greek–English Translation

The report about them reached the ears of the Church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

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Verse 11:23

Greek–English Translation

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain with the Lord with steadfast purpose of heart,

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Verse 11:24

Greek–English Translation

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. A considerable crowd was added to the Lord.

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Verse 11:25

Greek–English Translation

He went away to Tarsus to search for Saul,

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Verse 11:26

Greek–English Translation

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they gathered with the Church and taught a considerable crowd. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Chrēmatisai here conveys being called or designated; the sentence does not explicitly identify who coined the name Christians.

Relief sent to Judea

Verse 11:27

Greek–English Translation

In those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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Verse 11:28

Greek–English Translation

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and indicated through the Spirit that a great famine would come over the whole inhabited world. This happened in the time of Claudius.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Oikoumenē is the inhabited world, often used with an imperial horizon. No narrower modern geographical boundary or precise famine date is substituted; the source names Claudius’s time.

Verse 11:29

Greek–English Translation

The disciples determined, each according to his means, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Each person’s means govern the contribution; no fixed equal assessment is added.

Verse 11:30

Greek–English Translation

This they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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