34 He did not speak to them kwithout a parable, but lprivately to his own disciples he mexplained everything.
17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.
45 Then mhe opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
22 And when he had said this, he lbreathed on them and said to them, m“Receive the Holy Spirit.
4 And they were all jfilled with the Holy Spirit and began kto speak in other tongues las the Spirit gave them utterance.
Peter’s Vision
9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, ePeter went up fon the housetop about gthe sixth hour1 to pray. 10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into ha trance 11 and saw ithe heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; jfor I have never eaten anything that is kcommon or lunclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, m“What God has made clean, do not call common.”
28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew zto associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but aGod has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
Gentiles Hear the Good News
34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that fGod gshows no partiality,
