Acts 10:27-42

²⁷And while talking with him, he went in, and found many who had come together.

²⁸And he said to them, Ye know that it is an unlawful thing for a Jew to keep company with one of another nation, or to come near him; but God showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

²⁹Wherefore I came without objection, when sent for. I ask therefore, for what reason did ye send for me?

³⁰And Cornelius said, Four days ago, I was fasting till this hour; and at the ninth hour was praying in my house; and lo! a man stood before me in bright clothing,

³¹and said, Cornelius, thy prayer hath been heard, and thine alms have been remembered before God.

³²Send therefore to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea-side; and he, when he cometh, will speak to thee.

³³I therefore sent to thee immediately; and thou hast done well in coming here. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee from the Lord.

³⁴And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,

³⁵but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him—

³⁶the word which he sent to the sons of Israel, publishing glad tidings of peace through Jesus Christ; he is Lord of all men.

³⁷Ye yourselves know what was spoken of through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

³⁸relating to Jesus of Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were overpowered by the Devil; for God was with him.

³⁹And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew by hanging him on a cross.

⁴⁰Him God raised up on the third day, and caused him to be manifested,

⁴¹not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God, to ourselves, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

⁴²and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who hath been appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.