Acts 10:17
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Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,
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Caesarea was the Roman administrative center on the Mediterranean coast, where Cornelius lived; Joppa, also coastal, was where Peter received the vision that prepared him to meet Gentile messengers. Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, and Nazareth frame the wider Jewish setting of Jesus’ ministry and the church’s origins, underscoring the gospel’s movement beyond Jewish boundaries.
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Acts 10:17 mentions Caesarea, Galilee, Jerusalem, Joppa, Judea and Nazareth.
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