Acts 10:34-35 Peter began to speak: ‘Now I truly understand that God doesn’t show favoritism, but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.’
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“Take Kill Eat!”
Cornelius, a Roman centurion in Caesarea, who is devout and God-fearing. He receives a vision from an angel instructing him to send for Simon Peter in Joppa. Meanwhile, Peter, while praying on a rooftop, sees a vision of a sheet descending from heaven filled with various animals, and a voice tells him to kill and eat. Peter objects, citing Jewish dietary laws, but the voice declares, “What God has made clean, do not call impure.” This vision occurs three times. As Peter ponders its meaning, Cornelius’s messengers arrive, and the Spirit directs Peter to go with them. In Caesarea, Peter meets Cornelius and his household, realizing the vision was about accepting Gentiles, not just food. Peter preaches the gospel, and while he speaks, the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentile listeners, who begin speaking in tongues and praising God, astonishing the Jewish believers with Peter. Peter then orders their baptism, marking the first recorded Gentile converts welcomed into the church.
The primary point of Acts 10 is that God’s salvation extends beyond the Jews to all people, demonstrating His impartiality and breaking down cultural and religious barriers. Through divine visions and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, God reveals to Peter and the early church that Gentiles are fully accepted into His kingdom, fulfilling the promise of the gospel’s universal reach.
