you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:
37. Ye know how the word. This sermon of Peter consisteth upon [of] two members principally; for in the former he reciteth an history; secondly, he descendeth unto the fruit of the history). For seeing that the coming of Christ into the world, his death and resurrection, are the matter of our salvation, Christ cannot otherwise be set before us to salvation, than if we...
Peter opened his mouth with freedom and weight, as a man who had been locked silent to the uncircumcised until God opened it. He first establishes what must be clear or neither he nor they could preach or hear with comfort: God respects no man's person, but judges by merit alone, and so the Gospel belongs to Gentile and Jew equally.
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Commenting on Acts 10:34-43
You know this report by common fame spread for years through Judea and Galilee by John, Christ, and His apostles. Christ Himself began to preach in Galilee after John had baptized, calling His apostles and sending them forth to preach the Gospel. John's baptism was meant to set the Jews inquiring after the Messiah and to make Him manifest in Israel; upon that foundation the word of the Gospel quickly followed.
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