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• Acts 11Bible

  In this chapter Peter explains to the church in Jerusalem what happened at the house of Cornelius, and the church accepts that salvation has come to the Gentiles. A church is also established in Antioch, where the disciples are first called "Christians."

• Acts 4Bible

  Acts 4 describes Peter and John bearing witness to the name of Jesus before the council and being released, after which the Jerusalem church prays together and shares its possessions.

• LyddaBible

  Lydda is the town where Peter healed Aeneas, a man sick of the palsy, in Acts 9. It lay near Joppa, is generally identified with Lod of the Old Testament, and corresponds to the modern city of Lod in Israel.

• Living StoneBible

  "Living stone" is a metaphor in 1 Peter 2:4–5 that refers both to Jesus Christ and to those who believe in him. It describes believers as stones built upon Christ into a "spiritual house."

• Acts 5:29Bible Verses

  Acts 5:29 records the reply of Peter and the apostles to the Jerusalem council's order forbidding them to preach: "We ought to obey God rather than men." The verse is frequently cited when the commands of state authority conflict with religious conscience.

• AndrewPeople

  Andrew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, the brother of Simon Peter, and a fisherman from Galilee. The Gospel of John portrays him as a former disciple of John the Baptist who followed Jesus and brought Peter to Him.

• Parable of the Unforgiving ServantBible

  A parable that Jesus tells in Matthew 18 in answer to Peter's question about forgiveness. A king forgives a servant a debt of ten thousand talents, but the servant refuses to forgive a fellow servant's debt of a hundred denarii and is punished. The parable teaches the relationship between the forgiveness received from God and the forgiveness extended to one's neighbor.

• MalchusPeople

  Malchus was the servant of the high priest whose right ear Peter cut off with a sword when Jesus Christ was arrested in Gethsemane. His name appears only in the Gospel of John.

• Luke 5Bible

  Luke 5 is the chapter in which Jesus calls Simon Peter, James, and John as disciples by the lake of Gennesaret, heals a leper and a paralytic, calls Levi the tax collector, and answers a question about fasting.

• Third WaveHistory

  The Third Wave was a Holy Spirit renewal movement that arose in the United States in the 1980s, led chiefly by C. Peter Wagner and John Wimber. The term refers to evangelicals who embraced gifts of the Holy Spirit such as healing, tongues, and prophecy but did not wish to be called Pentecostals or charismatics.

• Acts 12Bible

  Acts 12 is the chapter in which King Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, an angel leads Peter out of prison, and Herod is struck down and dies.

• CorneliusPeople

  Cornelius is a Roman centurion stationed at Caesarea who appears in Acts 10. After hearing Peter's preaching, he received the Holy Spirit and was baptized. He is remembered as the central figure in the event through which the gospel was opened to the Gentiles.

• AeneasPeople

  Aeneas was a man of Lydda, mentioned in Acts 9, who had been bedridden with palsy for eight years and was healed through Peter.

• RhodaPeople

  Rhoda was a young girl in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 12. When Peter, newly released from prison, knocked at the gate of the house of Mary the mother of Mark, Rhoda recognized his voice and told those gathered inside.

• WaldensiansHistory

  The Waldensians (also called Waldenses) are a movement of voluntary poverty and preaching that began in the late twelfth century with Valdes (Peter Waldo), a merchant of Lyon, France. They were condemned as heretics by the pope in 1184, joined the Reformation in 1532, and continue today as a Reformed church centered in Italy.

• Galatians 2Bible

  Galatians 2 recounts how the apostles in Jerusalem recognized Paul as the apostle to the Gentiles and how Paul rebuked Cephas (Peter) at Antioch. The chapter declares that a person is justified not by the works of the law but by faith in Christ.

• MarkPeople

  Mark is a figure of the early church who appears in the New Testament book of Acts and in the Epistles. In Acts he is called "John, whose surname was Mark," and he worked alongside Paul, Barnabas, and Peter. He is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Mark.

• SilasPeople

  Silas appears in the New Testament book of Acts as a leader of the Jerusalem church who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey. In the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter he appears under the name Silvanus.

• Acts 10:44–46Bible Verses

  This passage describes how, while Peter was preaching in the house of Cornelius, the Holy Spirit fell on the Gentile listeners, who then spoke with tongues and magnified God. It marks a turning point in the mission to the Gentiles and is frequently cited in discussions of Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues.

• Acts 11:14Bible Verses

  Acts 11:14 records the angel's words to Cornelius, as quoted by Peter when he reported Cornelius's vision to the church in Jerusalem: Cornelius and "all thy house" would be saved through the words Peter would speak. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between hearing the gospel and salvation, and of household salvation and baptism.