God (Acts 2:4–12). Not only does the Spirit overcome linguistic divisions among the Jews; the same Spirit gives visions to both Peter and Cornelius, a Gentile, that lead to their meeting and the disclosure that the Good News is for Gentile as well as Jew (10:1–33). At the council of Jerusalem, Peter points to God’s “giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us,” for in this God “did not discriminate between us and them” (15:8–9). In light of this revelation, the council makes significant