the original message, afraid to step outside the bounds of what Jesus himself had done. But Peter recognizes that God has been at work for Cornelius; it has the familiar pattern that Peter knows from the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. He knows that he has been called to preach, and he knows—who better—that the content of his preaching is the forgiveness, the new start, that is offered in Jesus. Peter’s part in witnessing the resurrection is made all the more moving by the fact that the last