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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cornelius
A Roman centurion at Caesarea, devout, generous, and not a Jew. An angel told him to send for Peter while a vision got Peter ready to come. When the Holy Spirit fell on his household as it had at Pentecost, the Jerusalem church accepted that Gentiles did not have to become Jews first.
A Roman centurion at Caesarea, devout, generous, and not a Jew. An angel told him to send for Peter while a vision got Peter ready to come. When the Holy Spirit fell on his household as it had at Pentecost, the Jerusalem church accepted that Gentiles did not have to become Jews first.
Cornelius was a Roman centurion in Caesarea, devout and generous despite not being Jewish, and an angel told him to send for Peter, while a vision simultaneously prepared Peter to accept the invitation despite Jewish law's restrictions on entering a Gentile's home. Cornelius and his household became the first Gentile converts, and the Holy Spirit visibly fell on them the same way it had on the Jewish believers at Pentecost, convincing the Jerusalem church that the gospel extended to Gentiles without requiring them to become Jews first.
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- Acts 10:1
- Acts 10:3
- Acts 10:17
- Acts 10:22
- Acts 10:24
- Acts 10:25
- Acts 10:30
- Acts 10:31
