Peter defends Gentile salvation

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning

AD 38

Traditional reckoning

AD 38

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Where is it in the Bible?

• Acts 11:1–18

Who was there, and where?

• Simon Peter

Where: Jerusalem.

Which verses connect to Acts 11:1?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

1. Psalm 22:279 votes

   All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

2. Malachi 1:118 votes

   For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

3. Romans 15:7–125 votes

   Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, …

4. Isaiah 32:154 votes

   until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

5. Isaiah 49:63 votes

   He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

6. Zechariah 8:20–233 votes

   This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities— and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’ …