Acts 10:32-48 ▼

32 send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, will speak to you;

33 at once, therefore, I sent to you; you also did well, having come; now, therefore, we are all present before God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

34 And Peter having opened his mouth, said, “Of a truth, I perceive that God is not favoring by appearance,

35 but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

36 the word that He sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news—peace through Jesus Christ (this One is Lord of all),

37 you have known the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the immersion that John preached;

38 Jesus who [is] from Nazareth—how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the Devil, because God was with Him;

39 and we are witnesses of all things that He did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem—whom they slew, having hanged [Him] on a tree.

40 This One God raised up [on] the third day, and gave Him to become visible,

41 not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God—to us who ate with [Him], and drank with Him, after His rising out of the dead;

42 and He commanded us to preach to the people, and to fully testify that it is He who has been ordained judge of living and dead by God—

43 to this One do all the Prophets testify, that through His Name everyone that is believing in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”

44 While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy Spirit fell on all those hearing the word,

45 and those of circumcision [who were] believing were astonished—as many as came with Peter—because the gift of the Holy Spirit has also been poured out on the nations,

46 for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

47 Then Peter answered, “Is anyone able to forbid the water, that these may not be immersed, who received the Holy Spirit—even as us also?”

48 He commanded them to also be immersed in the Name of the LORD; then they implored him to remain certain days.