Acts 10:31-43

31He said to me, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and has remembered your gifts to the poor.

32So send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man whose name is Simon Peter. He’s a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker who lives by the sea.’

33So I sent for you immediately. Thank you for coming. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say.”

34Then Peter said, “Now I understand that God doesn’t play favorites.

35Rather, whoever respects God and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

36God sent his word to the people of Israel and brought them the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is everyone’s Lord.

37You know what happened throughout Judea. Everything began in Galilee after John spread the news about baptism.

38You know that God anointed Jesus from Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went everywhere and did good things, such as healing everyone who was under the devil’s power. Jesus did these things because God was with him.

39We can testify to everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. People hung him on a cross and killed him,

40but God brought him back to life on the third day. God didn’t show him

41to all the people. He showed Jesus to witnesses, apostles he had already chosen. We apostles are those men who ate and drank with Jesus after he came back to life.

42He ordered us to warn the people, ‘God has appointed Jesus to judge the living and the dead.’

43In addition, all the prophets testify that people who believe in the one named Jesus receive forgiveness for their sins through him.”