{"content":[{"text":"“Cornelius” was a “centurion of the band called the Italian band” (Acts 10:1). He \n was a Roman soldier in charge of one hundred men. Although “Cornelius” was \n not a Jew, he was a very religious man who feared God and prayed. One day \n while he was praying, “he saw a vision” involving an “angel of God” (Acts 10:3- \n 8). His initial response to this angelic visitor was fear (Acts 10:4). His fear did \n not prevent him from listening and obeying the voice of the Lord. He is told to \n send men to Joppa and look for Simon, whose surname is Peter. Cornelius \n sends two of his men to get Peter and bring him to Caesarea. Before the men \n arrive in Caesarea, Peter is on the housetop praying and he sees a vision from \n heaven (Acts 10:9-18). He sees a sheet full of animals, some clean and some \n unclean. The subject of clean and unclean was important to a Jew so this \n vision had Peter’s full attention.","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.090805,"width":0.756439,"height":0.21353000000000003}},{"text":"According to Jewish law there were some animals that were clean to eat and \n some that could not be eaten. In his vision Peter refuses to eat anything the \n Jewish law deems unclean (Acts 10:13-15). Three times this message is given \n to Peter but he does not understand how he can eat things the law declares \n unclean (Acts 10:17-18). While Peter thinks about what he has witnessed and \n what the Lord has said, the men sent by Cornelius arrive, find Peter, stay the \n night, and the next day escort him to Caesarea (Acts 10:19-23).","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.322181,"width":0.746572,"height":0.12435099999999999}},{"text":"Peter, the Jew, has a God ordained meeting with Cornelius the Gentile. \n Through Jewish eyes, Peter, the clean, is having a meeting with Cornelius, the \n unclean. The vision God has given Peter will open the door for Peter to see that \n God’s grace is available to the Gentiles.","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.46439,"width":0.7559670000000001,"height":0.07106800000000008}},{"text":"Peter’s Meeting with Cornelius (Acts 10:24-30)","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.553279,"width":0.476982,"height":0.01778500000000005}},{"text":"Verse 24-26","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.588923,"width":0.115468,"height":0.01778500000000005}},{"text":"“And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for \n them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. And as Peter was \n coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. \n But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.”","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.624529,"width":0.753375,"height":0.07105600000000001}},{"text":"When Peter arrived in Caesarea at the house of Cornelius, many “kinsmen and \n near friends” were awaiting Peter’s arrival. As Peter walked in, Cornelius “met \n him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.” As a Gentile, Cornelius is \n so overwhelmed that Peter, a Jew, has come to minister to him, he bows down \n and attempts to worship him. Cornelius sees Peter as the doorway to God’s \n grace and reverences him.","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.713418,"width":0.7555310000000001,"height":0.1066990000000001}},{"text":"“Caesarea” was a strange world to a Jew. Peter is far from the humble little \n Galilean village in which he had grown up. It would have been easy for Peter to \n have felt superior to Cornelius, but God’s grace will not allow that to happen. \n When Cornelius attempts to worship him, Peter says, “Stand up; I myself also","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.837938,"width":0.755707,"height":0.07110000000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}