3One afternoon about three o’clock, he had a vision in which he saw an angel of God coming toward him. “Cornelius!” the angel said.b
4Cornelius stared at him in terror. “What is it, sir?” he asked the angel. And the angel replied, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have been received by God as an offering!c
Acts 10 is the hinge chapter of the early church. A Roman centurion named Cornelius, devout and God-fearing, receives a vision while Peter, miles away in Joppa, is given a perplexing vision of a sheet full of unclean animals. God tells Peter to kill and eat; Peter protests. Three
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