Acts 10:5

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Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter.

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The Roman Empire of the New TestamentThe Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, the political world of the New Testament.

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Caesarea was the Roman administrative center on the Mediterranean coast, where Cornelius received God’s instruction to send for Peter in Joppa, a nearby port. Galilee, Jerusalem, Judea, and Nazareth frame the wider Jewish setting of Jesus’ ministry and the gospel’s movement beyond it.

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Acts 10:5 mentions Caesarea, Galilee, Jerusalem, Joppa, Judea and Nazareth.

Photo of Galilee — Galilee · מלאק אבו גוש

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