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1Now there lived a man in Chief Village (Caesarea) whose name was Little Horn (Cornelius) . He was a head soldier in the Young Bulls (Italian) band of the People of Iron (Romans) .
2He was a spiritual man who had deep respect for the Great Spirit. He, along with all his family, gave with a big heart to the poor and prayed to Creator at all times.
3One day, in the middle of the after-noon, he had a sacred vision. He could clearly see a spirit-messenger from Creator coming toward him.
“Little Horn (Cornelius) !” the messenger said to him.
4Little Horn (Cornelius) could only stare at the spirit-messenger and tremble with fear.
“What is it you want, Honored One?” he asked the messenger.
“Your prayers and gifts of kindness have been remembered. They have risen like sweet-smelling smoke to the Great Spirit.
5Now you must send messengers to Village of Beauty (Joppa) to find One Who Hears (Simon) , who is also named Stands on the Rock (Peter) and ask him to come to your home.
6He is lodging at a house near the great waters at the home of Hearing Man (Simon) , the tanner of hides.”
7After the spirit-messenger who spoke to him had left, Little Horn (Cornelius) called two servants and a trusted soldier from the ones who were under his command.
8After he told them everything they needed to know, he sent them to Village of Beauty (Joppa) .
9On the next day, as the messengers were traveling and coming close to the village, Stands on the Rock (Peter) climbed up onto the flat roof of the house to send his voice to Creator. It was about midday.
10He became hungry and wanted something to eat. As they were cooking the food, he fell into a trance and had a sacred vision.
11He saw an opening in the sky and something like a large, soft blanket that was being lowered to the ground by its four corners.
12On the blanket were all kinds of four-legged animals, creeping things from the ground, and winged ones who soar in the sky.
13“Stands on the Rock (Peter) , rise up!” a voice said to him. “Kill and eat.”
14“I cannot, O Honored One!” he answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15Then the Voice spoke to him a second time, “What the Great Spirit has made clean, you must not consider impure.”
16This was repeated three times, and then the blanket was taken right back up into the spirit-world above.
17Stands on the Rock (Peter) was troubled, trying to understand the meaning of the vision. At the same time the men who were sent by Little Horn (Cornelius) stood at the gate
18and called out to see whether Stands on the Rock (Peter) was lodging there.
19While Stands on the Rock (Peter) was meditating on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Look, three men are searching for you.
20Now rise up, go down into the house, and do not hesitate to go with these men, because I have sent them.”
21So Stands on the Rock (Peter) went down from the rooftop to where the men were and said to them, “I am the one you are looking for. What is it you want from me?”
22“Little Horn (Cornelius) , who is a head soldier of the People of Iron (Romans) , sent us. He is a man with a good heart who has deep respect for the Great Spirit and is well spoken of by all in your tribal nation. He was instructed by a sacred spirit-messenger to send messengers to you, to ask you to come to his house so he can hear your words.”
23Stands on the Rock (Peter) then welcomed them into the house and gave them lodging for the night. The next day he awoke and set out with them, and some of his spiritual brothers from Village of Beauty (Joppa) also went along.
24On the following day they came to Chief Village (Caesarea) . Little Horn (Cornelius) , who was waiting for them to come, had gathered together many relatives and close friends.
25As soon as Stands on the Rock (Peter) came into the house, Little Horn (Cornelius) dropped to his knees and began to pray to him.[#10:25 Lit. worship him]
26But Stands on the Rock (Peter) made him stand to his feet.
“Stand up!” he said to him, “I am only a weak human being, just as you are.”
27Stands on the Rock (Peter) kept talking to him as they went inside the house. There he saw all the people who had gathered to hear him.
28“As all of you must know,” he said to them, “it is against our law for a Tribal Member like myself to have anything to do with someone from an Outside Nation. But Creator has helped me to see that I should not consider anyone to be impure or unclean.
29So when I was asked to come here, I did not hesitate to come. So tell me, why have you sent for me?”
30Little Horn (Cornelius) spoke up and said to him, “It has now been four days to this very hour. In the middle of the afternoon, while I was praying, I looked up and saw a man standing before me, and his garments were shining bright.
31“‘Little Horn (Cornelius) ,’ he said to me, ‘your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have risen like sweet-smelling smoke before the Great Spirit. He has remembered what you have done.
32Send messengers to Village of Beauty (Joppa) to One Who Hears (Simon) , who is also named Stands on the Rock (Peter) , and ask him to come. He is lodging at the house of Hearing Man (Simon) , a tanner of hides, who lives near the great waters.’
33“I sent for you right away, and I thank you for coming. So we have all gathered here, in the sight of the Great Spirit, to hear what Creator has instructed you to tell us.”
34Stands on the Rock (Peter) took another deep breath, opened his mouth, and began .
“I speak from my heart,” he said to them. “I now see that Creator does not favor one human being over another.
35He accepts people of all nations who have a deep respect for him and do what is right.
36“This is the message he has given to the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) , a message of peace that comes through Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. He is the one who has been honored above all others!
37“You must have heard about it. It all began with the purification ceremony announced by He Shows Goodwill (John) in Circle of Nations (Galilee) . From there his message has spread like wildfire throughout the Land of Promise (Judea) .[#10:37, 47, 48 Baptism]
38“It is the story of how the Great Spirit chose Creator Sets Free (Jesus) from Seed Planter Village (Nazareth) , and how the power of Holy Spirit came to rest upon him. How he walked the land, with Creator at his side, doing good and healing all who were pushed down and crushed by the evil trickster.
39“We are his message bearers, telling the truth about all that he did in the territory of our Tribal Members and in Village of Peace (Jerusalem) , where they had him killed by hanging him on a tree.
40He is the one whom Creator, on the third day, brought back to life from the world of the dead. He then appeared,
41not to everyone, but to us, the ones he chose ahead of time to tell the truth about what we saw, we who ate and drank with him after he returned to life from the dead.
42“He has instructed us to tell this story in a sacred manner, so that all people will know that Creator Sets Free (Jesus) has been chosen by the Great Spirit to decide the fate of the living and the dead.
43All the prophets from long ago have spoken of him, that all who put their trust in him will be released from their bad hearts and broken ways through his name.”
44While Stands on the Rock (Peter) was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down upon all who were listening to his words.
45-46They began to speak in new languages and give praise and honor to the Great Spirit. This amazed the Tribal Members who came with Stands on the Rock (Peter) , for they could hear and see with their own eyes that even on people from Outside Nations, the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out.
Then Stands on the Rock (Peter) said to all,
47“Who can now refuse water for these people to participate in the purification ceremony? For they have received the Holy Spirit in the same manner that we did.”
48So he instructed them to participate in the purification ceremony in the name of the Chosen One Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and all he represents, welcoming them into the sacred family .
After that they asked Stands on the Rock (Peter) to remain with them for a number of days.