CORNELIUS' HOUSE, BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

34 Then Peter began to speak:

'I NOW REALIZE HOW TRUE IT IS

THAT GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM

35 BUT ACCEPTS MEN FROM EVERY NATION

WHO FEAR HIM

AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

36 THIS IS THE MESSAGE

GOD SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,

TELLING THE GOOD NEWS OF PEACE

THROUGH JESUS CHRIST,

WHO IS LORD OF ALL.

37 YOUR KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED

THROUGHOUT JUDEA,

BEGINNING IN GALILEE

AFTER THE BAPTISM THAT JOHN PREACHED--

38 HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH

WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND POWER,

AND HOW HE WENT AROUND DOING GOOD

AND HEALING ALL

WHO WERE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DEVIL,

BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH HIM.

39 We are Witnesses of everything he did

In the Country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

THEY KILLED HIM ON A TREE,

40 BUT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD

ON THE THIRD DAY

AND CAUSED HIM TO BE SEEN.

42 HE WAS NOT SEEN BY ALL THE PEOPLE,

BUT BY WITNESSES

WHOM GOD HAD ALREADY CHOSEN--

BY US WHO ATE AND DRANK WITH HIM

AFTER HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD.

43 ALL THE PROPHETS TESTIFY ABOUT HIM

THAT EVERYONE WHO BELEIVES IN HIM

RECEIVES FORGIENESS OF SINS

THROUGH HIS NAME.'

44 WHILE PETER WAS STILL SPEAKING THESE WORDS,

THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME ON ALL WHO HEARD THE MESSAGE.

45 THE CIRCUMCISED BELEIVERS

WHO HAD COME WITH PETER WERE ASTONISHED

THAT THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

HAD BEEN POURED OUT EVEN ON THE GENTILES.

46 FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAKING IN TONGUES

AND PRAISING GOD.

Then Peter said,

47 'CAN ANYONE KEEP THESE PEOPLE

FROM BEING BAPTIZED WITH WATER?'

THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT

JUST AS WE HAVE.'

44 So he order that they be Baptized

IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

Then they asked Peter

To stay with them for a few days.

(Acts 10:34-44)