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Acts 10:29-45

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29That was why I came, when I was sent for, without raising any objection. And now I ask your reason for sending for me.”
30“Just three days ago this very hour,” Cornelius said, “I was in my house, saying the Afternoon Prayers, when a man in dazzling clothing suddenly stood before me.
31‘Cornelius,’ he said, ‘your prayer has been heard, and your charities have been accepted, by God.
32Therefore send to Jaffa, and invite the Simon, who is also known as Peter, to come here. He is lodging in the house of Simon the tanner, near the sea.’
33Accordingly I sent to you at once, and you have been so good as to come. And now we are all here in the presence of God, to listen to all that you have been instructed by the Lord to say.”
34Then Peter began. “I see, beyond all doubt,” he said, “that God does not show partiality,
35but that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
36God has sent his message to the Israelites and told them, through Jesus Christ, the good news of peace — and Jesus is Lord of all!
37You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed —
38The story, I mean, of Jesus of Nazareth, and how God consecrated him his Christ by enduing him with the Holy Spirit and with power; and how he went about doing good and curing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
39We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!
40This Jesus God raised on the third day, and enabled him to appear,
41not indeed to everyone, but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God — to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.
42Further, God charged us to proclaim to the people, and solemnly affirm, that it is Jesus who has been appointed by God judge of the living and the dead.
43To him it is that all the prophets bear witness, when they say that everyone who believes in him receives through his name forgiveness of sins.”
44Before Peter had finished saying these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message.
45Those converts from Judaism, who had come with Peter, were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been bestowed even on the Gentiles;

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