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Therefore send someone to Joppa and invite Simon here, who is also named Peter. He is lodging in Simon the tanner's house by the sea.'
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Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord."
Good News for Gentiles
34 Then Peter began to speak: "In truth, I understand that God doesn't show favoritism,
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but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.
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He sent the message to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ-He is Lord of all.
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You know the events that took place throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached:
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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and curing all who were under the tyranny of the Devil, because God was with Him.
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We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem; yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.
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God raised up this man on the third day and permitted Him to be seen,
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not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
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He commanded us to preach to the people, and to solemnly testify that He is the One appointed by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.