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  COMMENTARY ON ACTS 10-11
  by Chuck Smith
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In the first chapter of Acts, Jesus said to His disciples, "But you
shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you
shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).

Jesus had commanded His disciples to go into all the world and preach
the Gospel to every creature, and he that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. So the Gospel of Jesus Christ is for all men, regardless
of nationality, ethnic background. And we watched the movement in the
book of Acts as they began first in Jerusalem, bearing witness of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ and multitudes being added to the church
daily.

Then upon persecution, we saw where Stephen went up into Samaria. Other
disciples were spread throughout Judea, and little pockets of believers
began to spring up in the second part of that prophecy of Jesus, in
Judea and in Samaria. With the continued persecution of the church and
with the increased number of converts who traveled freely in the Roman
Empire, we saw how that the Gospel began to spread into all the world.

It is interesting that Paul the apostle, thirty years after the birth of
the church, was able to write to the church in Colosse saying that the
Gospel, "Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world" (Colossians
1:6). So the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus as they had carried
the Gospel by thirty years into all the world. But we see that the
movement was gradual. They began in Jerusalem; they spread to Judea,
then into Samaria.

Now beginning in chapter 10, we get the next movement of the spread of
the Gospel as it is now being proclaimed to the Gentiles. And the Gospel
came to the Gentiles in a very interesting way.

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the
band that is called the Italian band (Act 10:1),

That doesn\

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