So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate after he had decided to release him.

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

But the crowd began to shout, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know –

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “This man is the Son of God.”

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’