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Feb 18, 2019 · Acts 10 – Peter and Salvation of the Gentiles. After Cornelius receives the Holy Spirit, Peter returns to Jerusalem. The “circumcised believers” there asked him about his visit to a Gentile’s home. To what extent is Peter defending himself in this section? Luke says that they the circumcised believers “criticized him” (διακρίνω).
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However, Acts 10 only mentions that he identifies with the...
- Cornelius
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- Gentiles
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- Peter
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- Jews and Gentiles
God is clearly pushing to break the divide between Jews and...
- Roman Soldiers and Religion
Feb 17, 2019 · God is clearly pushing to break the divide between Jews and Gentiles and all people. He wants all people to know Him and have a relationship with Him. It really shows how much tension there was between the Jews and Gentiles when you think about how Cornelius was a God-fearer (Acts 10:2) which, as you suggested, he could very well have been ...
Sep 15, 2013 · One of the basic assumptions most Christian have about Jews in the first century is that they kept separate from the Gentiles. Josephus said that Jews “did not come into contact with other people because of their separateness” (Antiq. 13:245-247; Apion, 2.210).
May 13, 2021 · This is because in Acts 1 Jesus told them to go "to the limits of the land" not "the whole world" as some translations wrongly translate it. Paul was "severed" from the Circumcision to go to the gentiles with Barnabus in Acts 13:1,2. He went with a different message to a different audience.
Oct 11, 2011 · The story is found in Acts 10. Let’s look at it in the (new to Bible Gateway!) J.B. Phillips New Testament. It begins with Cornelius receiving a message from an angel of God: There was a man in Caesarea by the name of Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
Feb 2, 2010 · The speech of James in Acts 15.13–21 plays a key role in Luke's account of the Council of Jerusalem (and therefore in his whole account of the origins of the Gentile mission).
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Acts 15 records a significant turning point in the early Church's history: the Jerusalem Council. This meeting addresses a significant doctrinal dispute about whether Gentile converts must obey Jewish customs to be saved.