A Seemingly Repetitive Bible Lesson That Actually Isn’t (Acts 11 part 1)

A Seemingly Repetitious Bible Story That Actually Isn’t

The Apostle Peter’s Triumphant Return to Jerusalem

(Acts chapter 11, verses 1–18)

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When we last left off at the conclusion of Acts chapter 10, Peter was staying and teaching at Caesaria at the home of newly-converted Cornelius the Roman centurion, having been sent there through a vision he had. This week as we start part 1 of Acts chapter 11, we find the apostle Peter has returned to Jerusalem some time later to tell the believers there about everything that had happened on his journey. So let’s take up where we left off starting at verse one.

Part One of This Week’s Study Verses

“The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had already received the Word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, ‘You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.’ Peter began and explained to them everything precisely as it happened: ‘I…