Bible Verses About Peter: Advocates, in the council of the apostles and elders, the preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles

The emissaries and the brothers throughout Y’hudah heard that the Goyim had received the word of God;

but when Kefa went up to Yerushalayim, the members of the Circumcision faction criticized him,

saying, “You went into the homes of uncircumcised men and even ate with them!”

In reply, Kefa began explaining in detail what had actually happened:

“I was in the city of Yafo, praying; and in a trance I had a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came down to me.

I looked inside and saw four-footed animals, beasts of prey, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!’

I said, ‘No, sir! Absolutely not! Nothing unclean or treif has ever entered my mouth!’

But the voice spoke again from heaven: ‘Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.’

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled back up into heaven.

“At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying;

and the Spirit told me to have no misgivings about going back with them. These six brothers also came with me, and we went into the man’s house.

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Yafo and bring back Shim‘on, known as Kefa.

He has a message for you which will enable you and your whole household to be saved.’

“But I had hardly begun speaking when the Ruach HaKodesh fell on them, just as on us at the beginning!

And I remembered that the Lord had said, ‘Yochanan used to immerse people in water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh.’

Therefore, if God gave them the same gift as he gave us after we had come to put our trust in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I to stand in God’s way?”

On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, “This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t’shuvah and have life!”

After lengthy debate, Kefa got up and said to them, “Brothers, you yourselves know that a good while back, God chose me from among you to be the one by whose mouth the Goyim should hear the message of the Good News and come to trust.

And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness by giving the Ruach HaKodesh to them, just as he did to us;

that is, he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their heart by trust.

So why are you putting God to the test now by placing a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we have had the strength to bear?

No, it is through the love and kindness of the Lord Yeshua that we trust and are delivered — and it’s the same with them.”