28. and said to them, “You know that it is unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with, or visit, a Gentile, but God has shown me that I should not call any person profane or unclean.
29. And that is why I came without objection when sent for. May I ask, then, why you summoned me?”
30. Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, three o’clock in the afternoon, I was at prayer in my house when suddenly a man in dazzling robes stood before me and said,
31. ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your almsgiving remembered before God.
32. Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’
33. So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to listen to all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
34. Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.
35. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.
36. You know the word [that] he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all,
37. what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached,
38. how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
39. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and (in) Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
40. This man God raised (on) the third day and granted that he be visible,
41. not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.