Acts 10:30–43

³⁰Cornelius answered, “Four days ago I was praying at home. It was at this same time, three o’clock in the afternoon. Suddenly, a man dressed in radiant clothes stood in front of me. ³¹He said to me, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and has remembered your gifts to the poor. ³²So send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man whose name is Simon Peter. He’s a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker who lives by the sea.’ ³³So I sent for you immediately. Thank you for coming. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say.” 

³⁴Then Peter said, “Now I understand that God doesn’t play favorites. ³⁵Rather, whoever respects God and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation. ³⁶God sent his word to the people of Israel and brought them the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is everyone’s Lord. ³⁷You know what happened throughout Judea. Everything began in Galilee after John spread the news about baptism. ³⁸You know that God anointed Jesus from Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went everywhere and did good things, such as healing everyone who was under the devil’s power. Jesus did these things because God was with him. ³⁹We can testify to everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. People hung him on a cross and killed him, ⁴⁰but God brought him back to life on the third day. God didn’t show him ⁴¹to all the people. He showed Jesus to witnesses, apostles he had already chosen. We apostles are those men who ate and drank with Jesus after he came back to life. ⁴²He ordered us to warn the people, ‘God has appointed Jesus to judge the living and the dead.’ ⁴³In addition, all the prophets testify that people who believe in the one named Jesus receive forgiveness for their sins through him.”