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Cornelius answered: “Three days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me
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and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.
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Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’
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So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”
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Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism
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but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.
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You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
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You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—
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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
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“We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross,
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but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.