For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

And they started to call Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.