010:030 "Just at this hour, three days ago," replied Cornelius, "I was offering afternoon prayer in my house, when suddenly a man in shining raiment stood in front of me,
010:031 who said, "`Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charities have been put on record before God.
010:032 Send therefore to Jaffa, and invite Simon, surnamed Peter, to come here. He is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, close to the sea.'
010:033 "Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."
010:034 Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said,
"that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;
010:035 but that in every nation those who fear Him and live good lives
are acceptable to Him.
010:036 The Message which He sent to the descendants of Israel, when He
announced the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ—He is
Lord of all—that Message you cannot but know;
010:037 the story, I mean, which has spread through the length and
breadth of Judaea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism
which John proclaimed.
010:038 It tells how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, so that He went about everywhere doing acts of kindness, and curing all who were being continually oppressed by the Devil—for God was with Jesus.
010:039 "And we are witnesses as to all that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. But they even put Him to death, by crucifixion.