Acts 11

Treated in 12 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. 4
  • 11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 3
  • 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught much people; and that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. 2
  • 11:9 But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. 1
  • 11:13 and he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, Send to Joppa, and fetch Simon, whose surname is Peter; 1
  • 11:14 who shall speak unto thee words, whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house. 1
  • 11:17 If then God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God? 1
  • 11:18 And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life. 1
  • 11:23 who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord: 1
  • 11:24 for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord. 1
  • 11:29 And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judæa: 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    Necessity and Possibility of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites Acts 11:15-16

    …of this verse is the promise of the gift or Baptism with the Holy Ghost. (Acts 10:45 with Acts 11:15-16.) Who is this gift for? "To you," says Peter to the Jews whom he was immediately addressi…

  2. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God, or the God of the Bible as Distinguished from the God of Christian Science and the God of Modern Philosophy cites Acts 11:9

    …as, from earth where God was not in the sense in which He was in heaven. Again we read in Acts 11:9: "A voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed make not thou co…

  3. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit: What it is and what it does cites Acts 11:15

    …ou have been clothed with power from on high." By a comparison of Acts 10:44, 45, 47 with Acts 11:15, 16, we find that the expressions " Holy Spirit came on them, and “The gift of the Holy S…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.2 Repentance cites Acts 11: 18

    ‘Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.’ Acts 11: 18. Repentance seems to be a bitter pill to take, but it is to purge out the bad humour of s…

  5. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Means to make Grace victorious cites Acts xi. 23

    …n his strength : though we are exhorted to cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart, Acts xi. 23, yet we must pray with David, Lord, for ever keep it in the thoughts of our hearts, and p…

  6. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    November cites Acts 11:24

    … OF THE SPIRIT--GOODNESS “He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith.”-- Acts 11:24. GOODNESS IS the radiance or out-shining of a pure and happy Christian soul. It is quick …

  7. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Sixth Stage cites Acts 11:26

    …ther’s father. Many have been good of this stock; their ancestors dwelt first at Antioch. Acts 11:26. Christian’s progenitors (I suppose you have heard your husband talk of them) were very w…

  8. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    December cites Acts xi. 26

    …Most High God.—McNeil. December 13 The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26. This name suggests that the clear impression made by our character, as well as by our wo…

  9. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Great Privilege of those that are Born of God cites Acts 11:29

    …ed with Saul out of all the disciples, to carry their relief unto the brethren in Judea; (Acts 11:29, 30; ) this Barnabas, who, at his return from Judea, was, by the peculiar direction of th…

  10. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Holy Spirit Convicting the World of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment cites Acts 11:13 - 14

    …will tell you a message through which you and everyone in your household wil l be saved” (Acts 11:13 - 14). So we may go right through the record of the conversions in the Acts of the Apostles, a…

  11. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    How the Baptism with the Holy Spirit can be obtained cites Acts 11:15-16

    …had fairly got through his sermon, the Baptism with the Holy Spirit came. (Acts 10:44-46, Acts 11:15-16.) In the nineteenth chapter of the Acts, there was no waiting. As soon as Paul had declar…

  12. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites Acts 11:15 -17

    …s when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?” (Acts 11:15 -17). Here Peter distinctly calls the experience which came to Cornelius and his household, b…