8. 11:1-18 Now the apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the non-Jewish people ('the nations') also received the word of God. When Peter went up to Jerusalem. Those people who stressed the need for circumcision disputed with him. They were saying. "You went into the houses of people who were uncircumcised and ate with them." Peter began to explain why he did this saying "I was in the city of Joppa praying. And I saw in an ecstasy a vision. It was coming down as a kind of vessel in the shape of a great sheet. The four corners were as though they were being let down out of heaven. It came up to me. Looking into it I perceived the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and the reptiles and the birds of heaven. I also heard a voice saying to me. "Get up Peter. Kill and eat." I said "Not at all Lord because a common or unclean thing has never gone into my mouth." A second time a voice out of heaven answered. "What God has cleaned, you are not to regard as common." This took place

on three occasions and again all the things were pulled back up to heaven. And behold at once there were three men who stood at the house in which I was staying. They had been sent down from Caesarea to me. The Spirit told me to go with them and doubt nothing. Also there were six brothers who came with me. We entered into the house of the man. He reported to us how he saw the angel in his house standing there and saying. "Send to Joppa and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter. He will speak words to you by which you and all your household may be saved." As I began to speak the Holy Spirit descended on them just as it did onto us at the beginning (of our ministry). Then I remembered the word of the Lord and how he said "John indeed baptized you with water. But you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit." If therefore God gave them a gift equal to what was given to us on believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who I was I to be able to hinder God?" And so on hearing these things they (the ones supporting circumcision) kept silence. They glorified God saying "Then God has also given to non-Jews his repentance into life?"

In Jerusalem Peter challenges traditional Jews to accept the uncircumcised