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Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Messiah, that he is the Son of God.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!"

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not make unholy."

They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Yehudim, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Yehudi to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God."

Kefa opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;

even Yeshua of Natzeret, how God anointed him with the Ruach HaKodesh and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He charged us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speak with other languages and magnify God. Then Kefa answered,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Yehudah heard that the Goyim had also received the word of God.

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

When they heard these things, they held their shalom, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Goyim repentance to life!"

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would remain near to the Lord.