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I Book spoke 17-12 after chapter 10.

and he said to him, your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

And now, send men to Japa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging with one Simon,

a Tanner whose house is by the sea. When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two

of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him, and having related everything

he sent them to Japa. A couple of brief comments here to begin with, we see in verse two,

Cornelius is described as a devout man who feared God with all his household, and then

you know, adding about giving alms and praying continually to God. Down in verse 22,

Cornelius is going to be described as an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the

whole Jewish nation. So these descriptions are important. They give us an idea of sort of the

Gentile situation, at least for some people in the first century. Now, there's a good article on

this from the dictionary of New Testament background by Scott McKnight, and I have uploaded that for

a tray to attach to this episode, and I'm quite sure he'll do that, but McKnight, just to summarize

what you'll read in that article, divides sort of, there's a range of attitudes among Jews

toward Gentiles, you know, the other nations. How did Jews look at Gentiles in the first century?

Is really the question. And broadly speaking, there were some who McKnight used the term,

were in favor of integration, that were integrating tendencies among certain Jews, and then there

were others who resisted contact with Gentiles. So as far as people who are thinking about, hey,

you know, the Gentiles aren't so bad, we should sort of be friendly to them or integrate them into

what we're doing. McKnight sort of divides that category, the integrating category into four subcategories.

He refers, for instance, to general, a general universalistic outlook among some Jews. Again,

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