His Time - Daily Lectionary: Acts 10:1-17

1. Daily Lectionary

Rev. Peter Glock from Zion Lutheran Church in Wenona, Illinois, studies Acts 10:1-17.

2. Morning Prayer Sermonette

Today’s sermonette is given by Rev. Peter Glock from Zion Lutheran Church in Wenona, Illinois.

Acts 10:1-17

Peter and Cornelius

10 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, ²a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. ³About the ninth hour of the day^[a] he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” ⁴And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.⁵And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter.⁶He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”⁷When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him,⁸and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Peter’s Vision

⁹The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour^[b] to pray. ¹⁰And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance ¹¹and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. ¹²In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. ¹³And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” ¹⁴But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” ¹⁵And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”¹⁶This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

¹⁷Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate

Footnotes:

Acts 10:3 That is, 3 p.m.
Acts 10:9 That is, noon

English Standard Version (ESV)

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