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Acts 11

Acts 11 ( Acts • Chapter 11 (30 verses)): And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem , they that were of the circumcision contended with him, Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. Mentions: Simon , Yeshua the Messiah , Saul , Jerusalem , Joppa , Caesarea , Phoenicia , Cyprus . Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Early Church, Acts & Pauline Epistles—Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Caesarea (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 8:40 , Acts 9:30 , Acts 10:1 , Acts 10:24 , Acts 11:11 , Acts 12:19 .) Antioch 1 (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 6:5 , Acts 11:19 , Acts 11:20 , Acts 11:22 , Acts 11:26 , Acts 11:27 .) Rome (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .) Cyrene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cyrene %2C_Libya. Referenced in Matt 27:32 , Mark 15:21 , Luke 23:26 , Acts 2:10 , Acts 11:20 .)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Acts 11:25 : "Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus , for to seek Saul :"; Acts 11:27 : "And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch ."; Acts 11:3 : "Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.". Related canonical books and chapters: Acts 11 ( Acts • Chapter 11 (30 verses)), Acts (New Testament • 28 Chapters), Deuteronomy 11 ( Deuteronomy • Chapter 11 (32 verses)).

Topics, People & Places (36)

Acts 11

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Acts • Chapter 11 (30 verses)

And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem , they that were of the circumcision contended with him, Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. Mentions: Simon , Yeshua the Messiah , Saul , Jerusalem , Joppa , Caesarea , Phoenicia , Cyprus .

Acts

99% New Testament

New Testament • 28 Chapters

Acts (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Simon , Judas , Mary . Key places: Jerusalem , Samaria , Galilee , Olivet , Mesopotamia , Cappadocia . Opens with: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,..."

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Acts Part 1 (Chapters 1–12)

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VIDEO • overview

Overview of Acts 1 –12 showing the Risen Jesus empowering his followers with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost , the bold multi-ethnic community in Jerusalem , and early expansion across Judea and Samaria .

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License

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Acts Part 2 (Chapters 13–28)

VIDEO 99%

VIDEO • overview

Overview of Acts 13 –28 following Paul's missionary journeys across the Greco-Roman world, the Jerusalem Council uniting Jewish and Gentile believers, trials, and unhindered proclamation in Rome .

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License

Hazor Canaanite Lion Orthostat — Temple Guardian

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IMAGE • archaeology

Basalt lion sculpture from the Late Bronze Age temple at Tel Hazor , 'the head of all those kingdoms' ( Joshua 11:10 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Caesarea

87% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 32.500°N, 34.892°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 8:40 , Acts 9:30 , Acts 10:1 , Acts 10:24 , Acts 11:11 , Acts 12:19 .

Antioch 1

85% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 36.202°N, 36.162°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 6:5 , Acts 11:19 , Acts 11:20 , Acts 11:22 , Acts 11:26 , Acts 11:27 .

Codex Alexandrinus (A, 02) — Acts of the Apostles 1

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IMAGE • manuscripts

Uncial folio depicting Christ 's ascension and the waiting apostles in Jerusalem .

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0

Pool of Siloam — Excavations of the Lower Byzantine & Herodian Pool

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IMAGE • archaeology

Monumental stone steps and promenade where Jesus sent the man born blind to wash in John 9:7 .

Second Temple Jerusalem Engineers • Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Library of Ashurbanipal Flood Tablet — Epic of Gilgamesh XI

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IMAGE • archaeology

Cuneiform tablet discovered at Nineveh preserving the ancient Mesopotamian account of the catastrophic global deluge and ark.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Babatha Archive — Legal Documents from Cave of Letters

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IMAGE • archaeology

Leather pouch containing 35 legal papyri preserved in the Judean wilderness during the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Tel Dan High Place — Sacred Precinct of Jeroboam's Golden Calf

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IMAGE • archaeology

Monumental stone podium and horned altar enclosure established by Jeroboam I at Dan to rival Jerusalem .

Northern Kingdom of Israel Stone Builders • Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Rome

81% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 41.900°N, 12.483°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .

Deir Alla Inscription — Prophecy of Balaam Son of Beor

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IMAGE • archaeology

Red and black ink plaster wall inscription in Jordan recounting visions of the seer 'Balaam, son of Beor' ( Numbers 22 ).

Gileadite Scribes (8th Century BCE) • Archaeological Museum of Amman / Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0

Western Wall — Spring of Robinson's Arch (Jerusalem)

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IMAGE • archaeology

Enormous carved spring stone projecting from the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount that supported a colossal staircase.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Temple Warning Inscription — Greek Soreg Warning to Gentiles

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Limestone slab warning non-Jews on pain of death not to enter past the balustrade (soreg) into the inner Temple courts ( Acts 21:28 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Scythopolis (Beth Shean) — Roman Theater & Decumanus

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Preserved basalt and limestone theater and colonnaded street of the chief city of the Decapolis .

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Early Church, Acts & Pauline Epistles

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Wiki Article • New Testament & Messiah

Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Cyrene

78% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 32.825°N, 21.858°E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene%2C_Libya. Referenced in Matt 27:32 , Mark 15:21 , Luke 23:26 , Acts 2:10 , Acts 11:20 .

Iconium

78% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 37.884°N, 32.494°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:51 , Acts 14:1 , Acts 14:19 , Acts 14:21 , Acts 16:2 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Deuteronomy 11

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Deuteronomy • Chapter 11 (32 verses)

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his gre... Mentions: Eliab , Reuben , Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Lebanon , Euphrates , Jordan , Gilgal 1 .

Lystra

78% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 37.578°N, 32.453°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 14:6 , Acts 14:8 , Acts 14:21 , Acts 16:1 , Acts 16:2 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Thessalonica

77% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 40.632°N, 22.932°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:1 , Acts 17:11 , Acts 17:13 , Acts 27:2 , Phil 4:16 , 2 Tim 4:10 .

Troas

77% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 39.507°N, 26.081°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 16:8 , Acts 16:11 , Acts 20:5 , Acts 20:6 , 2 Cor 2:12 , 2 Tim 4:13 .

Greece

76% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • Athens • 37.983°N, 23.733°E

region. Referenced in Dan 8:21 , Dan 10:20 , Dan 11:2 , Zech 9:13 , Acts 20:2 .

Tarsus

76% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 36.918°N, 34.892°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 9:11 , Acts 9:30 , Acts 11:25 , Acts 21:39 , Acts 22:3 .

Antioch 2

75% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 38.316°N, 31.179°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:14 , Acts 14:19 , Acts 14:21 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Thyatira

75% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 38.926°N, 27.857°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 16:14 , Rev 1:11 , Rev 2:18 , Rev 2:24 .

Alexandria

74% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 31.228°N, 29.957°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 18:24 , Acts 27:6 , Acts 28:11 .

Phoenicia

74% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • Sidon • 33.563°N, 35.366°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 11:19 , Acts 15:3 , Acts 21:2 (identified with Sidon ).

Cyprus

72% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 35.018°N, 33.208°E

island. Referenced in Isa 23:1 , Isa 23:12 , Jer 2:10 , Ezek 27:6 , Acts 4:36 .

The Parousia: The Return of Christ & The Day of the Lord

72% Wiki Topic

Prophetic Yom YHWH, The Olivet Discourse, and Apostolic Hope of the Second Coming

Unanimous apostolic proclamation across the New Testament: Christ will return personally, visibly, and gloriously to terminate this present evil age and judge the world in righteousness ( Acts 1:11 , 1 Thess 4:16 , Rev 19:11-16 ). Speculative chronologies and date-setting are designated traditional-conjecture.

Haran

72% Mapped Place

Biblical Place • 36.864°N, 39.032°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 11:31 , Gen 11:32 , Gen 12:4 , Gen 12:5 , Gen 27:43 , Gen 28:10 .

The Holy Spirit: Deity, Personhood & Divine Procession

72% Wiki Topic

Ruach Elohim, Pneuma Hagion, Patristic Pneumatology, and the Filioque Debate

Biblical-primary certainty on the full deity and distinct personhood of the Holy Spirit ( Matt 28:19 , Acts 5:3-4 , 1 Cor 2:10-11 ). The historical debate regarding the Filioque ('and the Son') between Western and Eastern branches of the Church is cataloged under scholarly-debate.

Ἀβραάμ

Abraam (Abraám) [ab-rah-am']

G0011 Greek proper noun masculine 73x

Abraham

Primary meaning: Abraham. Strong's: Abraham, the Hebrew patriarch. Lexical nuances: Abraham ( Ge 17:5 al.): Mt 1:1, 2 al.

Derivation: of Hebrew origin (H085);

Septuagint (LXX) Bridge:

LXX ⇄ H0085

Themes:

covenant patriarchs faith

Key Scripture Passages:

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Pneumatic Soteriology: Regeneration, Indwelling & Sanctification

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The New Birth, Temple of the Spirit, Fruit of the Spirit, and Union with Christ

Explicit biblical promises of the New Covenant ( Jer 31:33 , Ezek 36:26-27 ) realized at Pentecost ( Acts 2 ) and expounded across Pauline and Johannine theology ( Rom 8:9-11 , Gal 5:16-25 , Titus 3:5 ).

Scripture Passages (24)

Acts 11:25 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus , for to seek Saul :

Acts 11:27 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch .

Acts 11:3 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

Acts 11:11 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.

Acts 11:7 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

Acts 11:10 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Acts 11:14 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.

Acts 11:4 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

Acts 11:2 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem , they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

Acts 11:9 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Acts 11:30 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul .

Acts 11:15 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

Acts 11:8 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

Acts 11:21 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

Acts 11:1 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Acts 19:11 (KJV)

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And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

Acts 11:29 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

Acts 11:24 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

Acts 11:12 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:

Acts 2:11 (KJV)

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Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Acts 11:18 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

Acts 5:11 (KJV)

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And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

Acts 11:20 (KJV)

Acts 11 KJV

And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene , which, when they were come to Antioch , spake unto the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus .

Acts 18:11 (KJV)

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And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

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