Acts 10:39-48 ▼

39 We are witnesses of everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews, including Jerusalem. |They hung him on a tree and killed him,

40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear—

41 not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

42 He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

43 All the prophets testify to this: everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through his name.|

44 While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message.

45 Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles, too,

46 because they heard them speaking in foreign languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

47 |No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?|

48 So Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah. Then they asked him to stay there for several days.