34 He did not speak to them without a parable, but dprivately to his own disciples he explained 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 he topened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, b“Receive the Holy Spirit.
4 And they were all kfilled with the Holy Spirit and began to lspeak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Peter’s Vision
9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour1 to pray. 10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a jtrance 11 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were kall 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, l“By no means, Lord; for mI have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, n“What God has made clean, do not call common.”
28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how qunlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God 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 God rshows no partiality,
