Study Desk

He was afraid as he looked at the angel. He said, "What is it, Lord?" The angel said, "Your prayers and your gifts of money have gone up to God. He has remembered them.

He became very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting food ready to eat, he saw in a dream things God wanted him to see.

The voice said the second time, "What God has made clean you must not say is unclean."

They said, "Cornelius sent us. He is a captain and a good man and he honors God. The whole Jewish nation can say this is true. An angel from God told him to send for you. He asks you to come to his house. He wants to hear what you have to say."

Peter said to them, "You know it is against our Law for a Jew to visit a person of another nation. But God has shown me I should not say that any man is unclean.

He said to me, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayers and has remembered your gifts of love.

I sent for you at once. You have done well to come. We are all here and God is with us. We are ready to hear whatever the Lord has told you to say."

Then Peter said, "I can see, for sure, that God does not respect one person more than another.

God gave Jesus of Nazareth the Holy Spirit and power. He went around doing good and healing all who were troubled by the devil because God was with Him.

God raised Him to life on the third day and made Him to be seen.

He told us to preach to the people and tell them that God gave Christ the right to be the One Who says who is guilty of the living and the dead.

They heard them speak in special sounds and give thanks to God. Then Peter said,

The missionaries and followers who were in the country of Judea heard that the people who were not Jews also had received the Word of God.

The voice from heaven said the second time, ‘What God has made clean you must not say is unclean.'

If God gave to them the same gift He gave to us after we put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I stand against God?"

When they heard these words, they said nothing more. They thanked God, saying, "Then God has given life also to the people who are not Jews. They have this new life by being sorry for their sins and turning from them."

When he got there and saw how good God had been to them, he was full of joy. He told them to be true and faithful to the Lord.

So Peter was held in prison. But the church kept praying to God for him.

They all started to speak with a loud voice, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man."

The angel of the Lord knocked him down because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.