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so when I was summoned, I came without raising any questions. Tell me, then, why did you send for me?"
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Cornelius answered, "Three days ago around this time, I was at minchah prayers in my house, when suddenly a man in shining clothes stood in front of me
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and said, 'God has heard your prayer and remembered your acts of charity.
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Now send to Yafo and ask for Shim'on, known as Kefa; he is staying in the house of Shim'on, a leather-tanner, by the sea.'
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So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now all of us are here in the presence of God to hear everything the Lord has ordered you to say."
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Then Kefa addressed them: "I now understand that God does not play favorites,
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but that whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what people he belongs to.
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"Here is the message that he sent to the sons of Isra'el announcing shalom through Yeshua the Messiah, who is Lord of everything.
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You know what has been going on throughout Y'hudah, starting from the Galil after the immersion that Yochanan proclaimed;
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how God anointed Yeshua from Natzeret with the Ruach HaKodesh and with power; how Yeshua went about doing good and healing all the people oppressed by the Adversary, because God was with him.
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"As for us, we are witnesses of everything he did, both in the Judean countryside j