Acts 10:31-43

³¹He told me, ‘Cornelius, your prayers have been heard, and God has recognized your generosity to the poor.

³²Send someone to Joppa for Simon Peter. He's staying at Simon the tanner's house, down by the sea-shore.’

³³So immediately I sent for you, and it was good of you to come. That's why we're all here, meeting together before God, ready to hear everything the Lord has told you.”

³⁴Peter replied, “I'm totally convinced that God has no favorites.

³⁵In every nation God accepts those who respect him, and do what is good and right.

³⁶You know the message he sent to Israel, sharing the good news of peace that comes from Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

³⁷You know that this good news spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee, following John's call to baptism.

³⁸It's about Jesus of Nazareth—how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went around doing good, healing all those who were under the devil's control, for God was with him.

³⁹We can testify to all that he did in Judea and Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross.

⁴⁰But God raised him back to life on the third day, and had him appear,

⁴¹not to everyone, but to those witnesses chosen by God—including us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

⁴²He gave us the responsibility of publicly telling this to the people, to testify that he is the one God chose as the Judge of the living and the dead.

⁴³He is the one all the prophets spoke about, that everyone who trusts in him will receive forgiveness through his name.”