Acts 10:29

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Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:60 : 60 I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.
  • Acts 10:19-20 : 19 While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him,“Look! Three men are looking for you. 20 But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

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  • Acts 10:16-28
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    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

    17Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was and approached the gate.

    18They called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, was staying there as a guest.

    19While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him,“Look! Three men are looking for you.

    20But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

    21So Peter went down to the men and said,“Here I am, the person you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

    22They said,“Cornelius the centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

    23So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests.On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

    24The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

    25So when Peter came in, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.

    26But Peter helped him up, saying,“Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.”

    27Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

    28He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

  • Acts 10:30-33
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    30Cornelius replied,“Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

    31and said,‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

    32Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

    33Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”

  • Acts 11:11-14
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    11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

    12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

    13He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

    14who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’

  • Acts 10:1-9
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    1Peter Visits Cornelius Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.

    2He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

    3About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him,“Cornelius.”

    4Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied,“What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him,“Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

    5Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

    6This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

    7When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

    8and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

    9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

  • Acts 11:17
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    17Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”

  • Acts 11:3-6
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    3saying,“You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

    4But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

    5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

    6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

  • Acts 21:22
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    22What then should we do? They will no doubt hear that you have come.

  • Acts 11:8-9
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    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

  • Acts 22:21
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    21Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

  • Acts 10:11
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    11He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

  • Acts 10:14
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    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

  • Acts 24:17
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    17After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

  • Acts 26:17
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    17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

  • Rom 1:10
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    10and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

  • Acts 15:7
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    7After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

  • Acts 9:38
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    38Because Lydda was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him,“Come to us without delay.”

  • Acts 22:10
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    10So I asked,‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me,‘Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything that you have been designated to do.’

  • Acts 11:1
    68%

    1Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

  • Acts 11:23
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    23When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,