Acts 10:32-48 ▼

32 Therefore send to Joppa and call for Simon, who is called Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner by the sea.’

33 Therefore I sent to you at once, and you did well, having come. Now, therefore, we are all present before God to hear all the things having been commanded you by the Lord.”

34 And Peter, having opened the mouth, said, “Of a truth I understand that God is not One who shows partiality,

35 but in every nation the one fearing Him and working righteousness is acceptable to Him,

36 the word that He sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the gospel, peace by Jesus Christ—this One is Lord of all.

37 You? yourselves know the declaration having come through all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed:

38 Jesus from Nazareth—how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power—who went about doing good and healing all those being oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

39 And we are witnesses of all that He did—both in the region of the Jews and in Jerusalem—whom they also put to death, having hanged Him on a tree.

40 This One God raised up on the third day and gave Him to become manifest,

41 not to all the people, but to the witnesses having been chosen beforehand by God, to us who ate and drank with Him after His rising out from the dead.

42 And He instructed us to proclaim to the people and to testify fully that He is the One having been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.

43 To this One all the prophets testify that everyone believing in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

44 Peter still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.

45 And the believers from the circumcision, as many as had come with Peter, were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit has been poured out even on the Gentiles.

46 For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

47 “Is anyone able to withhold the water to baptize these who have received the Holy Spirit just as we also have?”

48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain some days.